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

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon Neptune  Xexclude from comparisonCassandra  Xexclude from comparisonOpenEdge  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemFast, reliable graph database built for the cloudWide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB infoOptimized for write accessApplication development environment with integrated database management systemDistributed, high-performance timeseries database
Primary database modelRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Wide column storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS infostarting with release V5
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Score2.47
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score2.29
Rank#113  Overall
#9  Graph DBMS
#5  RDF stores
Score98.83
Rank#12  Overall
#1  Wide column stores
Score3.45
Rank#85  Overall
#46  Relational DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comaws.amazon.com/­neptunecassandra.apache.orgwww.progress.com/­openedgequasar.ai
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comaws.amazon.com/­neptune/­developer-resourcescassandra.apache.org/­doc/­latestdocumentation.progress.com/­output/­ua/­OpenEdge_latestdoc.quasar.ai/­master
Developer4D, IncAmazonApache Software Foundation infoApache top level project, originally developped by FacebookProgress Software Corporationquasardb
Initial release19842017200819842009
Current releasev20, April 20234.1.3, July 2023OpenEdge 12.2, March 20203.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2commercialcommercial 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 languageJavaC++
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
hostedBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes 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 indexesyesnorestricted infoonly equality queries, not always the best performing solutionyesyes infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92noSQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)yes 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 infoCQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language).Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonoyesno
Triggersyesnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding infono "single point of failure"horizontal 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 infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possibleSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication with selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnowith Hadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be individually decided for each write operation
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes infoRelationships in graphsnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDno infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infowith encyption-at-restyesyesyes infoby using LevelDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononoyes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)Access rights for users can be defined per objectUsers and groupsCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail
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4D infoformer name: 4th DimensionAmazon NeptuneCassandraOpenEdgeQuasardb
Specific characteristicsApache Cassandra is the leading NoSQL, distributed database management system, well...
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Competitive advantagesNo single point of failure ensures 100% availability . Operational simplicity for...
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Typical application scenariosInternet of Things (IOT), fraud detection applications, recommendation engines, product...
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Key customersApple, Netflix, Uber, ING,, Intuit,Fidelity, NY Times, Outbrain, BazaarVoice, Best...
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Market metricsCassandra is used by 40% of the Fortune 100.
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Licensing and pricing modelsApache license  Pricing for commercial distributions provided by DataStax and available...
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