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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. AntDB vs. CrateDB vs. Graph Engine vs. HEAVY.AI

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonAntDB  Xexclude from comparisonCrateDB  Xexclude from comparisonGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemA scalable, multi-tenant, MPP-architectured RDBMS for OLTP and OLAP operations, highly compatible with OracleDistributed Database based on LuceneA distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engineA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS
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Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.25
Rank#303  Overall
#137  Relational DBMS
Score0.73
Rank#224  Overall
#37  Document stores
#5  Spatial DBMS
#16  Search engines
#19  Time Series DBMS
#8  Vector DBMS
Score0.61
Rank#240  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#35  Key-value stores
Score1.77
Rank#141  Overall
#65  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comwww.asiainfo.com/­en_us/­product_aisware_antdb_detail.htmlcratedb.comwww.graphengine.iogithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comcratedb.com/­docswww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualdocs.heavy.ai
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebook
Developer4D, IncAsiaInfo Technologies LimitedCrateMicrosoftHEAVY.AI, Inc.
Initial release1984201320102016
Current releasev20, April 20235.10, January 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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CrateDB Cloud: a distributed SQL database that spreads data and processing across an elastic cluster of shared nothing nodes. CrateDB Cloud enables data insights at scale on Microsoft Azure, AWS and Google Cloud Platform.
Implementation languageJava.NET and CC++ and CUDA
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
All Operating Systems, including Kubernetes with CrateDB Kubernetes Operator support.NETLinux
Data schemeyesyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92SQL2016 compliantyes, but no triggers and constraints, and PostgreSQL compatibilitynoyes
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
JDBC
MySQL protocol compliant
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
.NET
Erlang
Go infocommunity maintained client
Java
JavaScript (Node.js) infocommunity maintained client
Perl infocommunity maintained client
PHP
Python
R
Ruby infocommunity maintained client
Scala infocommunity maintained client
C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functions (Javascript)yesno
Triggersyesyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardinghorizontal partitioningSharding infoRound robin
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationConfigurable replication on table/partition-levelMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Read-after-write consistency on record level
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDno infounique row identifiers can be used for implementing an optimistic concurrency control strategynono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesoptional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storageyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsrights management via user accountsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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4D infoformer name: 4th DimensionAntDBCrateDBGraph Engine infoformer name: TrinityHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022
Specific characteristicsAntDB was initiated in 2008. On the core system of operators, AntDB provides online...
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The enterprise database for time series, documents, and vectors. Distributed - Native...
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Competitive advantagesHTAP mixed load: AntDB is a universal, enterprise-level distributed relational database,...
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Response time in milliseconds: e ven for complex ad-hoc queries. Massive scaling...
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Typical application scenariosAs the core software of large enterprise, AntDB supports multi-scenario deployment....
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​ IoT: accelerate your IIoT projects with CrateDB, delivering real-time analytics...
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Key customersChina Mobile, China Telecom, China Unicom, Aeon Life, China Mobile Tietong, CITIC...
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Across all continents, CrateDB is used by companies of all sizes to meet the most...
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Market metricsMore than 1 billion subscribers in 24 provinces across China are served by AntDB...
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The CrateDB open source project was started in 2013 Honorable Mention in 2021 Gartner®...
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Licensing and pricing modelsCertificates and licenses CMMI5 Certificate licensed by CMMI Institute IT Product...
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