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DBMS > 4D vs. AllegroGraph vs. Hypertable vs. JaguarDB vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. AllegroGraph vs. Hypertable vs. JaguarDB vs. Trafodion

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonAllegroGraph  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonJaguarDB  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. 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 DBMSAn open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopPerformant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applicationsTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store infowith version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS
Wide column storeKey-value store
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
#13  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comallegrograph.comwww.jaguardb.comtrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comfranz.com/­agraph/­support/­documentation/­current/­agraph-introduction.htmlwww.jaguardb.com/­support.htmltrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
Developer4D, IncFranz Inc.Hypertable Inc.DataJaguar, Inc.Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release19842004200920152014
Current releasev20, April 20238.0, December 20230.9.8.11, March 20163.3 July 20232.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availableOpen Source infoGPL V3.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C++ infothe server part. Clients available in other languagesC++, Java
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
LinuxLinux
Data schemeyesyes infoRDF schemasschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes
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 possiblenono
Secondary indexesyesyesrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92SPARQL is used as query languagenoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infobut no views, foreign keys, triggersyes
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
C++ API
Thrift
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
C#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infoJavaScript or Common LispnonoJava Stored Procedures
Triggersyesyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonewith FederationShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor on file system levelMulti-source replicationyes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnoyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononono
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationnorights management via user accountsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
More information provided by the system vendor
4D infoformer name: 4th DimensionAllegroGraphHypertableJaguarDBTrafodion
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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