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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. AllegroGraph vs. Faircom DB vs. SQLite vs. UniData,UniVerse

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

High performance, persistent RDF store with additional support for Graph DBMS

Native high-speed multi-model DBMS for relational and key-value store data simultaneously accessible through SQL and NoSQL APIs.

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

MultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilities

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

with version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	2.37
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.84
Rank	#204	Overall
	#35	Document stores
	#18	Graph DBMS
	#7	RDF stores
	#10	Vector DBMS

Score	0.18
Rank	#314	Overall
	#45	Key-value stores
	#141	Relational DBMS

Score	103.35
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	2.25
Rank	#112	Overall
	#2	Multivalue DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

allegrograph.com

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-db

www.sqlite.org

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-unidata

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

franz.com/agraph/support/documentation/current/agraph-introduction.html

docs.faircom.com/docs/en/UUID-7446ae34-a1a7-c843-c894-d5322e395184.html

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidata

Developer

4D, Inc

Franz Inc.

FairCom Corporation

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Rocket Software

Initial release

1984

2004

1979

2000

1985

Current release

v20, April 2023

8.0, December 2023

V13, July 2024

3.46.1 (13 August 2024), August 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

commercial

Restricted, free version available

Open Source

Public Domain

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

ANSI C, C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
QNX
SCO
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

easily portable to other OSs

server-less

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

schema free, schema optional, schema required, partial schema,

yes

dynamic column types

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI SQL Types, JSON, typed binary structures

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

optional

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

bulk load of XML files possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

SPARQL is used as query language

yes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensions

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

yes

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

ADO.NET
Direct SQL
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful MQTT/JSON API
RPC

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Java API

JPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

C#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js and browser)
PHP
Python
Visual Basic

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

.Net
Basic

U2 Basic
C
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript or Common Lisp

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

yes

Triggers

yes

U2 Basic

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

with Federation

File partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding

Customizable business rules for table partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes, configurable to be parallel or serial, synchronous or asynchronous, uni-directional or bi-directional, ACID-consistent or eventually consistent (with custom conflict resolution).

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Tunable consistency per server, database, table, and transaction

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

tunable from ACID to Eventually Consistent

ACID

configurable

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Yes, tunable from durable to delayed durability to in-memory

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

Fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard with additional protections for files

Access rights according to SQL-standard and operating system based

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