DBMS > 4D vs. AnzoGraph DB vs. Netezza vs. Snowflake vs. SQL.JS

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. AnzoGraph DB vs. Netezza vs. Snowflake vs. SQL.JS

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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

Data warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystems

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Relational DBMS

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Score	2.58
Rank	#108	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#307	Overall
	#24	Graph DBMS
	#13	RDF stores

Score	9.06
Rank	#46	Overall
	#29	Relational DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	0.53
Rank	#252	Overall
	#116	Relational DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

cambridgesemantics.com/anzograph

www.ibm.com/products/netezza

www.snowflake.com

sql.js.org

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

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

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

Developer

4D, Inc

Cambridge Semantics

IBM

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Initial release

1984

2018

2000

2014

2012

Current release

v20, April 2023

2.3, January 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free trial version available

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux

included in appliance

hosted

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

Data scheme

yes

Schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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.

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

JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

C++
Java
Python

C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and aggregates

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Automatic sharding

Sharding

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Multi-source replication in MPP-Cluster

Source-replica replication

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Kerberos/HDFS data loading

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency in MPP-Cluster

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not needed in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

Access rights for users and roles

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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