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DBMS > 4D vs. AllegroGraph vs. GigaSpaces vs. Quasardb vs. Yanza

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. AllegroGraph vs. GigaSpaces vs. Quasardb vs. Yanza

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonAllegroGraph  Xexclude from comparisonGigaSpaces  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonYanza  Xexclude from comparison
Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemHigh performance, persistent RDF store with additional support for Graph DBMSHigh performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented TransactionsDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseTime Series DBMS for IoT Applications
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store infowith version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS
Document store
Object oriented DBMS infoValues are user defined objects
Time Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSGraph DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score1.06
Rank#187  Overall
#30  Document stores
#17  Graph DBMS
#7  RDF stores
#7  Vector DBMS
Score0.97
Rank#192  Overall
#32  Document stores
#6  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comallegrograph.comwww.gigaspaces.comquasar.aiyanza.com
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comfranz.com/­agraph/­support/­documentation/­current/­agraph-introduction.htmldocs.gigaspaces.com/­latest/­landing.htmldoc.quasar.ai/­master
Developer4D, IncFranz Inc.Gigaspaces TechnologiesquasardbYanza
Initial release19842004200020092015
Current releasev20, April 20238.0, December 202315.5, September 20203.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial licenses availablecommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensescommercial infofree version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono infobut mainly used as a service provided by Yanza
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Implementation languageJava, C++, .NetC++
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Windows
Data schemeyesyes infoRDF schemasschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infointeger and binaryno
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.yesno infobulk load of XML files possibleno infoXML can be used for describing objects metadatanono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infowith tagsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92SPARQL is used as query languageSQL-99 for query and DML statementsSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
HTTP APIHTTP API
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
C#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
any language that supports HTTP calls
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infoJavaScript or Common Lispyesnono
Triggersyesyesyes, event driven architecturenoyes infoTimer and event based
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonewith FederationShardingSharding infoconsistent hashingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication with selectable replication factornone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infoMap-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executorswith Hadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANYImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoby using LevelDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesyes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationRole-based access controlCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailno
More information provided by the system vendor
4D infoformer name: 4th DimensionAllegroGraphGigaSpacesQuasardbYanza
Specific characteristicsKnowledge Graph Platform Leader FedShard - Designed for Entity-Event Knowledge Graph...
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Competitive advantagesAllegroGraph is uniquely suited to support adhoc queries through SPARQL, Prolog and...
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