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DBMS > 4D vs. Apache Pinot vs. Blazegraph vs. Qdrant vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Apache Pinot vs. Blazegraph vs. Qdrant vs. SWC-DB

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonApache Pinot  Xexclude from comparisonBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonQdrant  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  Xexclude from comparison
Amazon has acquired Blazegraph's domain and (probably) product. It is said that Amazon Neptune is based on Blazegraph.
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemRealtime distributed OLAP datastore, designed to answer OLAP queries with low latencyHigh-performance graph database supporting Semantic Web (RDF/SPARQL) and Graph Database (tinkerpop3, blueprints, vertex-centric) APIs with scale-out and High Availability.A high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matchingA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMSWide column store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
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Score2.47
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.38
Rank#275  Overall
#126  Relational DBMS
Score0.81
Rank#213  Overall
#19  Graph DBMS
#8  RDF stores
Score1.28
Rank#167  Overall
#6  Vector DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#364  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Websitewww.4d.compinot.apache.orgblazegraph.comgithub.com/­qdrant/­qdrant
qdrant.tech
github.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comdocs.pinot.apache.orgwiki.blazegraph.comqdrant.tech/­documentation
Developer4D, IncApache Software Foundation and contributorsBlazegraphQdrantAlex Kashirin
Initial release19842015200620212020
Current releasev20, April 20231.0.0, September 20232.1.5, March 20190.5, April 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoextended commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaRustC++
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
All OS with a Java JDK11 or higherLinux
OS X
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infoRDF literal typesNumbers, Strings, Geo, Boolean
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.yesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infoKeywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-text
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92SQL-like query languageSPARQL is used as query languagenoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
JDBCJava API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3
gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API infoOpenAPI 3.0
Proprietary protocol
Thrift
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
Go
Java
Python
.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
C++
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesno
Triggersyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioningShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyesCollection-level replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual Consistency, tunable consistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes infoRelationships in Graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsSecurity and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)Key-based authentication

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