DBMS > 4D vs. Altibase vs. DataFS vs. NebulaGraph vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Altibase vs. DataFS vs. NebulaGraph vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

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

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

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	0.09
Rank	#360	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Score	2.23
Rank	#116	Overall
	#10	Graph DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

altibase.com

newdatabase.com

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

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

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

dev.mobiland.com/Overview.xsp

docs.nebula-graph.io

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

4D, Inc

Altibase

Mobiland AG

Vesoft Inc.

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

1984

1999

2018

2019

2014

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

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0 + Common Clause 1.0

commercial

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

Windows

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

yes

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

Strong typed schema

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

.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

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

C
C++
Java

.Net
C
C#
C++
VB.Net

.Net
C++
Go
Java
PHP
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

stored procedures and stored functions

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

no, except callback-events from server when changes happened

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Proprietary Sharding system

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

Causal Clustering using Raft protocol

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using RocksDB

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

Windows-Profile

Role-based access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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Licensing and pricing models

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