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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. AllegroGraph vs. Quasardb vs. Sadas Engine vs. Yaacomo

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonAllegroGraph  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonSadas Engine  Xexclude from comparisonYaacomo  Xexclude from comparison
Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemHigh performance, persistent RDF store with additional support for Graph DBMSDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseSADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environmentsOpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store infowith version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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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
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#158  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comallegrograph.comquasar.aiwww.sadasengine.comyaacomo.com
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comfranz.com/­agraph/­support/­documentation/­current/­agraph-introduction.htmldoc.quasar.ai/­masterwww.sadasengine.com/­en/­sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/­#documentation
Developer4D, IncFranz Inc.quasardbSADAS s.r.l.Q2WEB GmbH
Initial release19842004200920062009
Current releasev20, April 20238.0, December 20233.14.1, January 20248.0
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoLimited community edition freecommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensescommercial infofree trial version availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C++
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
AIX
Linux
Windows
Android
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesyes infoRDF schemasschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infointeger and binaryyesyes
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 possiblenonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infowith tagsyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92SPARQL is used as query languageSQL-like query languageyesyes
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
C#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infoJavaScript or Common Lispnono
Triggersyesyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonewith FederationSharding infoconsistent hashinghorizontal partitioninghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replication with selectable replication factornoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonowith Hadoop integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby using LevelDByesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes infoTransient modeyes infomanaged by 'Learn by Usage'yes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
More information provided by the system vendor
4D infoformer name: 4th DimensionAllegroGraphQuasardbSadas EngineYaacomo
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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