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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Altibase vs. Amazon DocumentDB vs. searchxml vs. Stardog

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

Fast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed MongoDB-compatible database service

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Enterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualization

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Graph DBMS
RDF store

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Score	2.68
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	1.00
Rank	#194	Overall
	#91	Relational DBMS

Score	1.89
Rank	#137	Overall
	#24	Document stores

Score	0.01
Rank	#386	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Score	2.05
Rank	#129	Overall
	#11	Graph DBMS
	#6	RDF stores

Website

www.4d.com

altibase.com

aws.amazon.com/documentdb

www.searchxml.net/category/products

www.stardog.com

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

github.com/ALTIBASE/Documents/tree/master/Manuals

aws.amazon.com/documentdb/resources

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

docs.stardog.com

Developer

4D, Inc

Altibase

informationpartners gmbh

Stardog-Union

Initial release

1984

1999

2019

2015

2010

Current release

v20, April 2023

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

1.0

7.3.0, May 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

commercial

60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/students

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

hosted

Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

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

Import/export of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

supports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatial

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

ANSI SQL-92

Yes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Server

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

proprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

C
C++
Java

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

stored procedures and stored functions

yes

on the application server

user defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Java

Triggers

yes

via event handlers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

Multi-availability zones for high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicas

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

Multi-source replication in HA-Cluster

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency in HA-Cluster

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

typically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possible

yes

relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic single-document operations

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

Access rights for users and roles

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