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DBMS > 4D vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. AnzoGraph DB vs. CockroachDB

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. AnzoGraph DB vs. CockroachDB

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonAnzoGraph DB  Xexclude from comparisonCockroachDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemHosted simple database service by Amazon, with the data stored in the Amazon Cloud. infoThere is an unrelated product called SimpleDB developed by Edward ScioreScalable graph database built for online analytics and data harmonization with MPP scaling, high-performance analytical algorithms and reasoning, and virtualizationCockroachDB is a distributed database architected for modern cloud applications. It is wire compatible with PostgreSQL and backed by a Key-Value Store, which is either RocksDB or a purpose-built derivative, called Pebble.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeGraph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMS
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Score2.37
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score1.89
Rank#128  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Score0.22
Rank#302  Overall
#24  Graph DBMS
#13  RDF stores
Score4.74
Rank#67  Overall
#36  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comaws.amazon.com/­simpledbcambridgesemantics.com/­anzographwww.cockroachlabs.com
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbdocs.cambridgesemantics.com/­anzograph/­userdoc/­home.htmwww.cockroachlabs.com/­docs
Developer4D, IncAmazonCambridge SemanticsCockroach Labs
Initial release1984200720182015
Current releasev20, April 20232.3, January 202124.1.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercial infofree trial version availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGo
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
hostedLinuxLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeSchema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportdynamic schema
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyes
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.yesnono
Secondary indexesyesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallynoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92noSPARQL and SPARQL* as primary query language. Cypher preview.yes, wire compatible with PostgreSQL
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
RESTful HTTP APIApache Mule
gRPC
JDBC
Kafka
OData access for BI tools
OpenCypher
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
JDBC
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C++
Java
Python
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnouser defined functions and aggregatesno
Triggersyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationAutomatic shardinghorizontal partitioning (by key range) infoall tables are translated to an ordered KV store and then broken down into 64MB ranges, which are then used as replicas in RAFT
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyesMulti-source replication in MPP-ClusterMulti-source replication using RAFT
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoKerberos/HDFS data loadingno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Immediate Consistency in MPP-ClusterImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono infonot needed in graphsyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
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 and rolesRole-based access control

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