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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Apache Phoenix vs. Cassandra vs. JaguarDB vs. Memgraph

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

A scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBase

Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB

Optimized for write access

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

An open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4j

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

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Trend Chart

Score	2.47
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	2.06
Rank	#123	Overall
	#58	Relational DBMS

Score	98.83
Rank	#12	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	0.06
Rank	#381	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores
	#13	Vector DBMS

Score	3.19
Rank	#94	Overall
	#8	Graph DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

phoenix.apache.org

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

memgraph.com/docs

Social network pages

Developer

4D, Inc

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

DataJaguar, Inc.

Memgraph Ltd

Initial release

1984

2014

2008

2015

2017

Current release

v20, April 2023

5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 2019

4.1.3, July 2023

3.3 July 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

GPL V3.0

Open Source

BSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

C and C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux
Unix
Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

late-bound, schema-on-read capabilities

schema-free

yes

schema-free and schema-optional

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

restricted

only equality queries, not always the best performing solution

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

SQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

JDBC

Proprietary protocol

CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift

JDBC
ODBC

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

C
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

Multi-source replication

Multi-source replication using RAFT

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

ACID

with snapshot isolation

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changes

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 Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancy

Access rights for users can be defined per object

rights management via user accounts

Users, roles and permissions

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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