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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Jena - TDB vs. GigaSpaces

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

A RDF storage and query DBMS, shipped as an optional-use component of the Apache Jena framework

High performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented Transactions

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

RDF store

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Values are user defined objects

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS
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Rank	#110	Overall
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Score	19.03
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	3.85
Rank	#86	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	1.02
Rank	#192	Overall
	#32	Document stores
	#6	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

aws.amazon.com/redshift

jena.apache.org/documentation/tdb/index.html

www.gigaspaces.com

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

jena.apache.org/documentation/tdb/index.html

docs.gigaspaces.com/latest/landing.html

Developer

4D, Inc

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

Gigaspaces Technologies

Initial release

1984

2012

2000

Current release

v20, April 2023

4.9.0, July 2023

15.5, September 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial licenses available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Java, C++, .Net

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

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

XML can be used for describing objects metadata

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL-99 for query and DML statements

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

JDBC
ODBC

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Java

.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

in Python

yes

Triggers

yes

via event handler

yes, event driven architecture

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

none

Multi-source replication

synchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication

synchronous or asynchronous

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Map-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executors

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANY

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

TDB Transactions

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access control via Jena Security

Role-based access control

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