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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Apache Impala vs. gStore vs. LevelDB vs. searchxml

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

A native Graph DBMS to store and maintain very large RDF datasets.

Embeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string values

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Key-value store

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Secondary database models

Document store

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Trend Chart

Score	2.58
Rank	#108	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	13.77
Rank	#40	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#359	Overall
	#37	Graph DBMS
	#18	RDF stores

Score	2.35
Rank	#111	Overall
	#19	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#25	Search engines

Website

www.4d.com

impala.apache.org

en.gstore.cn

github.com/google/leveldb

www.searchxml.net/category/products

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

en.gstore.cn/#/enDocs

github.com/google/leveldb/blob/main/doc/index.md

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

Developer

4D, Inc

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

Google

informationpartners gmbh

Initial release

1984

2013

2016

2011

2015

Current release

v20, April 2023

4.1.0, June 2022

1.2, November 2023

1.23, February 2021

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux

Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

schema-free

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

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

C++
Go
Java

3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Python

3rd party binding

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

yes

on the application server

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

selectable replication factor

none

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

multiple readers, single writer

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with automatic compression on writes

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

Access rights for users, groups and roles

based on Apache Sentry and Kerberos

Users, roles and permissions, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) supported

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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