DBMS > 4D vs. Amazon Neptune vs. Galaxybase vs. OpenEdge vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Amazon Neptune vs. Galaxybase vs. OpenEdge vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Fast, reliable graph database built for the cloud

Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platform

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

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Score	2.47
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	2.29
Rank	#113	Overall
	#9	Graph DBMS
	#5	RDF stores

Score	0.07
Rank	#377	Overall
	#40	Graph DBMS

Score	3.45
Rank	#85	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

aws.amazon.com/neptune

galaxybase.com

www.progress.com/openedge

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

aws.amazon.com/neptune/developer-resources

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

4D, Inc

Amazon

Chuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司

Progress Software Corporation

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

1984

2017

1984

2014

Current release

v20, April 2023

Nov 20, November 2021

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and Java

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Strong typed schema

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

OpenCypher
RDF 1.1 / SPARQL 1.1
TinkerPop Gremlin

Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API

JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Go
Java
Python

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined procedures and functions

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Multi-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.

Source-replica replication

yes

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

yes

Relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with encyption-at-rest

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

Access rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Role-based access control

Users and groups

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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