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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Blazegraph vs. LeanXcale vs. NCache

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Name

This system has been discontinued and will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Amazon has acquired Blazegraph's domain and (probably) product. It is said that Amazon Neptune is based on Blazegraph.

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Highly scalable database system, designed for managing session and subscriber data in modern mobile communication networks

High-performance graph database supporting Semantic Web (RDF/SPARQL) and Graph Database (tinkerpop3, blueprints, vertex-centric) APIs with scale-out and High Availability.

A highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilities

Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	2.47
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.81
Rank	#213	Overall
	#19	Graph DBMS
	#8	RDF stores

Score	0.36
Rank	#280	Overall
	#40	Key-value stores
	#129	Relational DBMS

Score	0.96
Rank	#195	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Website

www.4d.com

atos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repository

blazegraph.com

www.leanxcale.com

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

wiki.blazegraph.com

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

Developer

4D, Inc

Atos Convergence Creators

Blazegraph

LeanXcale

Alachisoft

Initial release

1984

2016

2006

2015

2005

Current release

v20, April 2023

1703

2.1.5, March 2019

5.3.3, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

extended commercial license available

commercial

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

yes

RDF literal types

partial

Supported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter

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

SPARQL is used as query language

yes

through Apache Derby

SQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

LDAP

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3

JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

All languages with LDAP bindings

.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
Java
Scala

.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

Triggers

yes

Notifications

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

cell division

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

yes, with selectable consistency level

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in Graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic execution of specific operations

ACID

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

LDAP bind authentication

Security and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)

Authentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)

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