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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Apache Jena - TDB vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. OpenEdge

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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

Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

RDF store

Relational DBMS

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Score	2.37
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	2.91
Rank	#93	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	18.98
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	3.69
Rank	#78	Overall
	#42	Relational DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

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

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

www.progress.com/openedge

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

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

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

Developer

4D, Inc

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

Microsoft

Progress Software Corporation

Initial release

1984

2000

2016

1984

Current release

v20, April 2023

4.9.0, July 2023

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

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

yes

close to SQL 92

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

Java

C#
Java
PHP

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transact SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

via event handler

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

none

yes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints

yes

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

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

Users and groups

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