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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Altibase vs. Memgraph vs. TerarkDB

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

An open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4j

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	2.58
Rank	#108	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	1.07
Rank	#186	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	3.02
Rank	#98	Overall
	#8	Graph DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Website

www.4d.com

altibase.com

memgraph.com

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

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

memgraph.com/docs

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

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Developer

4D, Inc

Altibase

Memgraph Ltd

ByteDance, originally Terark

Initial release

1984

1999

2017

2016

Current release

v20, April 2023

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

Open Source

BSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available

commercial

restricted open source version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free and schema-optional

schema-free

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

ANSI SQL-92

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

C
C++
Java

.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

stored procedures and stored functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

Multi-source replication using RAFT

none

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

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

with snapshot isolation

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changes

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

Users, roles and permissions

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Licensing and pricing models

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