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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. AnzoGraph DB vs. BigObject

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Scalable graph database built for online analytics and data harmonization with MPP scaling, high-performance analytical algorithms and reasoning, and virtualization

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

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Score	2.68
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.27
Rank	#302	Overall
	#24	Graph DBMS
	#13	RDF stores

Score	0.13
Rank	#342	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

cambridgesemantics.com/anzograph

bigobject.io

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

docs.cambridgesemantics.com/anzograph/userdoc/home.htm

docs.bigobject.io

Developer

4D, Inc

Cambridge Semantics

BigObject, Inc.

Initial release

1984

2018

2015

Current release

v20, April 2023

2.3, January 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free trial version available

commercial

free community edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

Data scheme

yes

Schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

SPARQL and SPARQL* as primary query language. Cypher preview.

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

Apache Mule
gRPC
JDBC
Kafka
OData access for BI tools
OpenCypher
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

C++
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and aggregates

Lua

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Automatic sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Multi-source replication in MPP-Cluster

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Kerberos/HDFS data loading

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency in MPP-Cluster

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not needed in graphs

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

Access rights for users and roles

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