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DBMS > 4D vs. Altibase vs. Apache Phoenix vs. Qdrant vs. RDF4J

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Altibase vs. Apache Phoenix vs. Qdrant vs. RDF4J

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonQdrant  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseA high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matchingRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSVector DBMSRDF store
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Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score1.07
Rank#186  Overall
#87  Relational DBMS
Score1.97
Rank#126  Overall
#59  Relational DBMS
Score1.16
Rank#175  Overall
#6  Vector DBMS
Score0.69
Rank#230  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Websitewww.4d.comaltibase.comphoenix.apache.orggithub.com/­qdrant/­qdrant
qdrant.tech
rdf4j.org
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsphoenix.apache.orgqdrant.tech/­documentationrdf4j.org/­documentation
Developer4D, IncAltibaseApache Software FoundationQdrantSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.
Initial release19841999201420212004
Current releasev20, April 2023v7.3, 2023, August 20235.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 2019
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaRustJava
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Linux
Unix
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesschema-freeyes infoRDF Schemas
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesNumbers, Strings, Geo, Booleanyes
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.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infoKeywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-textyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92ANSI SQL-92yesnono
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
JDBCgRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API infoOpenAPI 3.0
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
C
C++
Java
C
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesstored procedures and stored functionsuser defined functionsyes
Triggersyesyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Collection-level replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoHadoop integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency, tunable consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACID infoIsolation support depends on the API used
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as well
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancyKey-based authenticationno

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