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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. AllegroGraph vs. LevelDB vs. OpenSearch vs. TigerGraph

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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

Embeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string values

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

A complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

with version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS

Key-value store

Search engine

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	2.58
Rank	#108	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	1.06
Rank	#187	Overall
	#30	Document stores
	#17	Graph DBMS
	#7	RDF stores
	#7	Vector DBMS

Score	2.35
Rank	#111	Overall
	#19	Key-value stores

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	1.83
Rank	#139	Overall
	#13	Graph DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

allegrograph.com

github.com/google/leveldb

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

www.tigergraph.com

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

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

github.com/google/leveldb/blob/main/doc/index.md

opensearch.org/docs/latest

docs.tigergraph.com

Developer

4D, Inc

Franz Inc.

Google

Amazon Web Services

Initial release

1984

2004

2011

2021

2017

Current release

v20, April 2023

8.0, December 2023

1.23, February 2021

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

SPARQL is used as query language

SQL-like query language

SQL-like query language (GSQL)

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

C#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala

C++
Go
Java

3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Python

3rd party binding

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript or Common Lisp

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

with Federation

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with automatic compression on writes

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

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

Role-based access control

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Licensing and pricing models

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