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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Apache Jena - TDB vs. BigchainDB vs. TigerGraph vs. WakandaDB

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

A RDF storage and query DBMS, shipped as an optional-use component of the Apache Jena framework

BigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assets

A complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

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Score	2.58
Rank	#108	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	3.75
Rank	#84	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	0.79
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	1.83
Rank	#139	Overall
	#13	Graph DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#364	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

jena.apache.org/documentation/tdb/index.html

www.bigchaindb.com

www.tigergraph.com

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

jena.apache.org/documentation/tdb/index.html

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

docs.tigergraph.com

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

4D, Inc

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

1984

2000

2016

2017

2012

Current release

v20, April 2023

4.9.0, July 2023

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Python

C++

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

schema-free

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

SQL-like query language (GSQL)

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

Java

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

C++
Java

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

via event handler

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

none

selectable replication factor

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

TDB Transactions

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

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 control via Jena Security

yes

Role-based access control

yes

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