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DBMS > 4D vs. AnzoGraph DB vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. Kdb

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. AnzoGraph DB vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. Kdb

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonAnzoGraph DB  Xexclude from comparisonAtos Standard Common Repository  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Spanner  Xexclude from comparisonKdb  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 networksA horizontally scalable, globally consistent, relational database service. It is the externalization of the core Google database that runs the biggest aspects of Google, like Ads and Google Play.High performance Time Series DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational 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
Score2.89
Rank#103  Overall
#52  Relational DBMS
Score7.55
Rank#53  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
#1  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comcambridgesemantics.com/­anzographatos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repositorycloud.google.com/­spannerkx.com
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comdocs.cambridgesemantics.com/­anzograph/­userdoc/­home.htmcloud.google.com/­spanner/­docscode.kx.com
Developer4D, IncCambridge SemanticsAtos Convergence CreatorsGoogleKx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plc
Initial release19842018201620172000 infokdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 2003
Current releasev20, April 20232.3, January 202117033.6, May 2018
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree trial version availablecommercialcommercialcommercial infofree 32-bit version
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaq
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
LinuxLinuxhostedLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesSchema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportSchema and schema-less with LDAP viewsyesyes
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.yesnoyesnoyes
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesyes infotable attribute 'grouped'
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92SPARQL and SPARQL* as primary query language. Cypher preview.noyes infoQuery statements complying to ANSI 2011SQL-like query language (q)
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
LDAPgRPC (using protocol buffers) API
JDBC infoAt present, JDBC supports read-only queries. No support for DDL or DML statements.
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
C++
Java
Python
All languages with LDAP bindingsGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functions and aggregatesnonouser defined functions
Triggersyesnoyesnoyes infowith views
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneAutomatic shardingSharding infocell divisionShardinghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication in MPP-ClusteryesMulti-source replication with 3 replicas for regional instances.Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoKerberos/HDFS data loadingyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflowno infosimilar paradigm used for internal processing
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in MPP-ClusterImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno infonot needed in graphsnoyes infoby using interleaved tables, this features focuses more on performance improvements than on referential integrityyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDAtomic execution of specific operationsACID infoStrict serializable isolationno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.noyesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsAccess rights for users and rolesLDAP bind authenticationAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)rights management via user accounts
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4D infoformer name: 4th DimensionAnzoGraph DBAtos Standard Common RepositoryGoogle Cloud SpannerKdb
Specific characteristicsIntegrated columnar database & programming system for streaming, real time and historical...
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Competitive advantagesprovides seamless scalability; runs on industry standard server platforms; is top-ranked...
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Typical application scenariostick database streaming sensor data massive intelligence applications oil and gas...
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Key customersGoldman Sachs Morgan Stanley Merrill Lynch J.P. Morgan Deutsche Bank IEX Securities...
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Market metricskdb+ performance and reliability proven by our customers in critical infrastructure...
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Licensing and pricing modelsupon request
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