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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. AllegroGraph vs. SurrealDB

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonAllegroGraph  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemHigh performance, persistent RDF store with additional support for Graph DBMSA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store infowith version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS
Document store
Graph DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score2.80
Rank#111  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Score1.03
Rank#199  Overall
#34  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
#7  RDF stores
#7  Vector DBMS
Score1.04
Rank#197  Overall
#33  Document stores
#17  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comallegrograph.comsurrealdb.com
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comfranz.com/­agraph/­support/­documentation/­current/­agraph-introduction.htmlsurrealdb.com/­docs
Developer4D, IncFranz Inc.SurrealDB Ltd
Initial release198420042022
Current releasev20, April 20238.0, December 2023v1.1.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageRust
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesyes infoRDF schemasschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes
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 possible
Secondary indexesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92SPARQL is used as query languageSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
C#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infoJavaScript or Common Lisp
Triggersyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonewith Federation
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationyes, based on authentication and database rules
More information provided by the system vendor
4D infoformer name: 4th DimensionAllegroGraphSurrealDB
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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