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DBMS > 4D vs. AnzoGraph DB vs. ArangoDB vs. EJDB

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. AnzoGraph DB vs. ArangoDB vs. EJDB

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonAnzoGraph DB  Xexclude from comparisonArangoDB  Xexclude from comparisonEJDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemScalable graph database built for online analytics and data harmonization with MPP scaling, high-performance analytical algorithms and reasoning, and virtualizationNative multi-model DBMS for graph, document, key/value and search. All in one engine and accessible with one query language.Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)
Primary database modelRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Search engine
Document store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.47
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#303  Overall
#25  Graph DBMS
#14  RDF stores
Score3.26
Rank#88  Overall
#15  Document stores
#5  Graph DBMS
#12  Key-value stores
#10  Search engines
Score0.31
Rank#296  Overall
#44  Document stores
Websitewww.4d.comcambridgesemantics.com/­anzographarangodb.comgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comdocs.cambridgesemantics.com/­anzograph/­userdoc/­home.htmdocs.arangodb.comgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.md
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterYouTubeFacebookInstagram
Developer4D, IncCambridge SemanticsArangoDB Inc.Softmotions
Initial release1984201820122012
Current releasev20, April 20232.3, January 20213.11.5, November 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree trial version availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial license (Enterprise) availableOpen Source infoGPLv2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++C
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
server-less
Data schemeyesSchema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportschema-free infoautomatically recognizes schema within a collectionschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infostring, double, boolean, list, hashyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_id
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.yesno
Secondary indexesyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92SPARQL and SPARQL* as primary query language. Cypher preview.nono
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
Apache Mule
gRPC
JDBC
Kafka
OData access for BI tools
OpenCypher
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
AQL
Foxx Framework
Graph API (Gremlin)
GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Java & SpringData
JSON style queries
VelocyPack/VelocyStream
in-process shared library
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
C++
Java
Python
C#
C++
Clojure
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Rust
Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functions and aggregatesJavaScriptno
Triggersyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneAutomatic shardingSharding infosince version 2.0none
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication in MPP-ClusterSource-replica replication with configurable replication factornone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoKerberos/HDFS data loadingno infocan be done with stored procedures in JavaScriptno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in MPP-ClusterEventual Consistency infoconfigurable per collection or per write
Immediate Consistency
OneShard (highly available, fault-tolerant deployment mode with ACID semantics)
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno infonot needed in graphsyes inforelationships in graphsno infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoRead/Write Locking
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.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsAccess rights for users and rolesyesno
More information provided by the system vendor
4D infoformer name: 4th DimensionAnzoGraph DBArangoDBEJDB
Specific characteristicsGraph and Beyond. With more than 11,000 stargazers on GitHub, ArangoDB is the leading...
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Competitive advantagesConsolidation: As a native multi-model database, can be used as a full blown document...
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Typical application scenariosNative multi-model in ArangoDB is being used for a broad range of projects across...
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Key customersCisco, Barclays, Refinitive, Siemens Mentor, Kabbage, Liaison, Douglas, MakeMyTrip,...
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Market metricsArangoDB is the leading native multi-model database with over 11,000 stargazers on...
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Licensing and pricing modelsVery permissive Apache 2 License for Community Edition & commercial licenses are...
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