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DBMS > 4D vs. AnzoGraph DB vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. PlanetScale

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. AnzoGraph DB vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. PlanetScale

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonAnzoGraph DB  Xexclude from comparisonAtos Standard Common Repository  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonPlanetScale  Xexclude from comparison
This system has been discontinued and will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
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 virtualizationHighly scalable database system, designed for managing session and subscriber data in modern mobile communication networksCloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.Scalable, distributed, serverless MySQL database platform built on top of Vitess
Primary database modelRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Document store
Key-value store
Document storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.23
Rank#307  Overall
#24  Graph DBMS
#13  RDF stores
Score14.29
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score1.59
Rank#151  Overall
#70  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comcambridgesemantics.com/­anzographatos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repositoryfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databaseplanetscale.com
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comdocs.cambridgesemantics.com/­anzograph/­userdoc/­home.htmfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databaseplanetscale.com/­docs
Developer4D, IncCambridge SemanticsAtos Convergence CreatorsGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014PlanetScale
Initial release19842018201620122020
Current releasev20, April 20232.3, January 20211703
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree trial version availablecommercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesyes
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Implementation languageJavaGo
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
LinuxLinuxhostedDocker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesSchema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportSchema and schema-less with LDAP viewsschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesoptionalyesyes
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.yesnoyesno
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92SPARQL and SPARQL* as primary query language. Cypher preview.nonoyes infowith proprietary extensions
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
LDAPAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
C++
Java
Python
All languages with LDAP bindingsJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functions and aggregatesnolimited functionality with using 'rules'yes infoproprietary syntax
TriggersyesnoyesCallbacks are triggered when data changesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneAutomatic shardingSharding infocell divisionSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication in MPP-ClusteryesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoKerberos/HDFS data loadingnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in MPP-ClusterImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Eventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno infonot needed in graphsnonoyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDAtomic execution of specific operationsyesACID at shard level
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engine
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsAccess rights for users and rolesLDAP bind authenticationyes, based on authentication and database rulesUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles

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