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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Amazon Neptune vs. Datomic vs. OpenEdge vs. Rockset

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon Neptune  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonOpenEdge  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemFast, reliable graph database built for the cloudDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityApplication development environment with integrated database management systemA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB
Primary database modelRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
Search engine
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
Score1.66
Rank#144  Overall
#66  Relational DBMS
Score3.45
Rank#85  Overall
#46  Relational DBMS
Score0.82
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Websitewww.4d.comaws.amazon.com/­neptunewww.datomic.comwww.progress.com/­openedgerockset.com
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comaws.amazon.com/­neptune/­developer-resourcesdocs.datomic.comdocumentation.progress.com/­output/­ua/­OpenEdge_latestdocs.rockset.com
Developer4D, IncAmazonCognitectProgress Software CorporationRockset
Initial release19842017201219842019
Current releasev20, April 20231.0.6735, June 2023OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercial infolimited edition freecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonoyes
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Implementation languageJava, ClojureC++
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
hostedAll OS with a Java VMAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
hosted
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesdynamic typing
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 infoingestion from XML files supported
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92nonoyes infoclose to SQL 92Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
OpenCypher
RDF 1.1 / SPARQL 1.1
TinkerPop Gremlin
RESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Clojure
Java
Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyes infoTransaction Functionsyesno
TriggersyesnoBy using transaction functionsyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peershorizontal partitioning infosince Version 11.4Automatic sharding
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.none infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersSource-replica replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes infoRelationships in graphsnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infowith encyption-at-restyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes inforecommended only for testing and developmentno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)noUsers and groupsAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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