DBMS > 4D vs. Altibase vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. DataFS vs. NebulaGraph

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Altibase vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. DataFS vs. NebulaGraph

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

Hosted, scalable database service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloud

All data is stored inside objects which are linked by so-called link attributes. Objects consist of classes which can be extended and de-extended at runtime. Graphs can be defined with a struct.

A distributed, linear scalable, high perfomant Graph DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Object oriented DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS

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Score	2.47
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	1.02
Rank	#189	Overall
	#88	Relational DBMS

Score	74.45
Rank	#17	Overall
	#3	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	0.09
Rank	#360	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Score	2.23
Rank	#116	Overall
	#10	Graph DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

altibase.com

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

newdatabase.com

github.com/vesoft-inc/nebula
www.nebula-graph.io

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

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

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

dev.mobiland.com/Overview.xsp

docs.nebula-graph.io

Developer

4D, Inc

Altibase

Amazon

Mobiland AG

Vesoft Inc.

Initial release

1984

1999

2012

2018

2019

Current release

v20, April 2023

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

1.1.263, October 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0 + Common Clause 1.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

hosted

Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Classes, Structs, and Lists are written in proprietary DataTypeDefinitionLanguage (.dtdl) and Objects consisting of those are written in proprietary DataAccessDefinitionLanguage (.dadl)

Strong typed schema

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

Secondary indexes

yes

Nebula Graph internally uses the Key-Value store RocksDB for persistency. The vertices, edges, and their properties are stored as Key while their values are stored as Value. The primary indexes are per Key and secondary indexes are per Value.

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

ANSI SQL-92

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
Proprietary client DLL
WinRT client

Browser interface
console (shell)
Cypher Query Language
GO Object Graph Mapper
Java Object Graph Mapper
NGBatis

ORM framework for NebulaGraph and Spring-Boot
Proprietary native API
Python Object Graph Mapper
Query language nGQL

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

C
C++
Java

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C#
C++
VB.Net

.Net
C++
Go
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

stored procedures and stored functions

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

no, except callback-events from server when changes happened

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Proprietary Sharding system

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

Causal Clustering using Raft protocol

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

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

ACID across one or more tables within a single AWS account and region

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using RocksDB

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 can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Windows-Profile

Role-based access control

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Licensing and pricing models

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