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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Amazon Neptune vs. Bangdb vs. OpenEdge vs. Quasardb

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon Neptune  Xexclude from comparisonBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonOpenEdge  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemFast, reliable graph database built for the cloudConverged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphApplication development environment with integrated database management systemDistributed, high-performance timeseries database
Primary database modelRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.47
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score2.29
Rank#113  Overall
#9  Graph DBMS
#5  RDF stores
Score0.16
Rank#338  Overall
#47  Document stores
#32  Graph DBMS
#31  Time Series DBMS
Score3.45
Rank#85  Overall
#46  Relational DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comaws.amazon.com/­neptunebangdb.comwww.progress.com/­openedgequasar.ai
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comaws.amazon.com/­neptune/­developer-resourcesdocs.bangdb.comdocumentation.progress.com/­output/­ua/­OpenEdge_latestdoc.quasar.ai/­master
Developer4D, IncAmazonSachin Sinha, BangDBProgress Software Corporationquasardb
Initial release19842017201219842009
Current releasev20, April 2023BangDB 2.0, October 2021OpenEdge 12.2, March 20203.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoBSD 3commercialcommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageC, C++C++
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
hostedLinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsyesyes infointeger and binary
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.yesnonoyesno
Secondary indexesyesnoyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialyesyes infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92noSQL like support with command line toolyes infoclose to SQL 92SQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
OpenCypher
RDF 1.1 / SPARQL 1.1
TinkerPop Gremlin
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language).Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonoyesno
Triggersyesnoyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)yesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmhorizontal partitioning infosince Version 11.4Sharding infoconsistent hashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationMulti-availability zones high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicas within a single region. Global database clusters consists of a primary write DB cluster in one region, and up to five secondary read DB clusters in different regions. Each secondary region can have up to 16 reader instances.selectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)Source-replica replicationSource-replica replication with selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononowith Hadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes infoRelationships in graphsnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, optimistic concurrency controlyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infowith encyption-at-restyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellyesyes infoby using LevelDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes, run db with in-memory only modenoyes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)yes (enterprise version only)Users and groupsCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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