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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Altibase vs. mSQL vs. OrigoDB vs. RDF4J

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

RDF store

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Score	2.58
Rank	#108	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	1.07
Rank	#186	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	1.27
Rank	#167	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#53	Document stores
	#20	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.69
Rank	#230	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Website

www.4d.com

altibase.com

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

origodb.com

rdf4j.org

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

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

origodb.com/docs

rdf4j.org/documentation

Developer

4D, Inc

Altibase

Hughes Technologies

Robert Friberg et al

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

Initial release

1984

1999

1994

2009

under the name LiveDB

2004

Current release

v20, April 2023

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

4.4, October 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

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

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

ANSI SQL-92

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

C
C++
Java

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

.Net

Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

stored procedures and stored functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

none

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

depending on model

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Write ahead log

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

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

Role based authorization

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