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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

Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
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Score	2.47
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#303	Overall
	#25	Graph DBMS
	#14	RDF stores

Score	0.31
Rank	#296	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	0.63
Rank	#241	Overall
	#112	Relational DBMS

Website

cambridgesemantics.com/anzograph

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

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

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb/blob/master/README.md

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

Developer

4D, Inc

Cambridge Semantics

Softmotions

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Initial release

1984

2018

2012

2012

Current release

v20, April 2023

2.3, January 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

commercial

free trial version available

Open Source

GPLv2

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

no

no

no

no

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C

JavaScript

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux

server-less

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

yes

Schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

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

no

no

Secondary indexes

yes

no

no

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

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

no

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

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

in-process shared library

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

C++
Java
Python

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and aggregates

no

no

Triggers

yes

no

no

no

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Automatic sharding

none

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Multi-source replication in MPP-Cluster

none

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

no

Kerberos/HDFS data loading

no

no

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency in MPP-Cluster

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

no

not needed in graphs

no

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

ACID

no

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes

yes

Read/Write Locking

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes

yes

no

except by serializing a db to a file

In-memory capabilities

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

no

yes

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

Access rights for users and roles

no

no

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