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DBMS > 4D vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Datomic vs. Dgraph vs. Dragonfly

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Datomic vs. Dgraph vs. Dragonfly

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonAtos Standard Common Repository  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonDragonfly  Xexclude from comparison
This system has been discontinued and will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemHighly scalable database system, designed for managing session and subscriber data in modern mobile communication networksDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityDistributed and scalable native Graph DBMSA drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instance
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMSGraph DBMSKey-value store
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Score2.47
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score1.66
Rank#144  Overall
#66  Relational DBMS
Score1.53
Rank#152  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#261  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Websitewww.4d.comatos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repositorywww.datomic.comdgraph.iogithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comdocs.datomic.comdgraph.io/­docswww.dragonflydb.io/­docs
Developer4D, IncAtos Convergence CreatorsCognitectDgraph Labs, Inc.DragonflyDB team and community contributors
Initial release19842016201220162023
Current releasev20, April 202317031.0.7075, December 20231.0, March 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoBSL 1.1
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJava, ClojureGoC++
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
LinuxAll OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesSchema and schema-less with LDAP viewsyesschema-freescheme-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesoptionalyesyesstrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arrays
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.yesyesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92nononono
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
LDAPRESTful HTTP APIGraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
Proprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization Protocol
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
All languages with LDAP bindingsClojure
Java
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Clojure
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyes infoTransaction FunctionsnoLua
TriggersyesyesBy using transaction functionsnopublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionality
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infocell divisionnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersSynchronous replication via RaftSource-replica 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 configurationImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDAtomic execution of specific operationsACIDACIDAtomic execution of command blocks and scripts
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes, strict serializability by the server
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes inforecommended only for testing and developmentyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsLDAP bind authenticationnono infoPlanned for future releasesPassword-based authentication

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