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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Altibase vs. Dgraph vs. Drizzle vs. TinkerGraph

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSDistributed and scalable native Graph DBMSMySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.A lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
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Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score1.07
Rank#186  Overall
#87  Relational DBMS
Score1.45
Rank#156  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#348  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comaltibase.comdgraph.iotinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlin
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsdgraph.io/­docs
Developer4D, IncAltibaseDgraph Labs, Inc.Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker
Initial release19841999201620082009
Current releasev20, April 2023v7.3, 2023, August 20237.2.4, September 2012
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGNU GPLOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++GoC++Java
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Linux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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 indexesyesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92ANSI SQL-92noyes infowith proprietary extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
JDBCTinkerPop 3
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
C
C++
Java
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Java
PHP
Groovy
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesstored procedures and stored functionsnonono
Triggersyesyesnono infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.no
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingyesShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyesSynchronous replication via RaftMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyesyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesoptional
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno infoPlanned for future releasesPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPno

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