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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Amazon Neptune vs. Infobright vs. Oracle Rdb

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Fast, reliable graph database built for the cloud

High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Relational DBMS

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Score	2.68
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	2.58
Rank	#112	Overall
	#9	Graph DBMS
	#5	RDF stores

Score	1.00
Rank	#193	Overall
	#90	Relational DBMS

Score	1.08
Rank	#187	Overall
	#85	Relational DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

aws.amazon.com/neptune

ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/infobrightdb

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

aws.amazon.com/neptune/developer-resources

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

Developer

4D, Inc

Amazon

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Initial release

1984

2017

2005

1984

Current release

v20, April 2023

7.4.1.1, 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

The open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux
Windows

HP Open VMS

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

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

Knowledge Grid Technology used instead

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

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

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

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes, on a single node

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)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

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