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

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

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonAtos Standard Common Repository  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  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 DBMSTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMSGraph DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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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
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comatos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repositorywww.datomic.comdgraph.iogithub.com/­spotify/­heroic
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comdocs.datomic.comdgraph.io/­docsspotify.github.io/­heroic
Developer4D, IncAtos Convergence CreatorsCognitectDgraph Labs, Inc.Spotify
Initial release19842016201220162014
Current releasev20, April 202317031.0.7075, December 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJava, ClojureGoJava
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
LinuxAll OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesSchema and schema-less with LDAP viewsyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesoptionalyesyesyes
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 indexesyesyesyesyesyes infovia Elasticsearch
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
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
All languages with LDAP bindingsClojure
Java
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyes infoTransaction Functionsnono
TriggersyesyesBy using transaction functionsnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infocell divisionnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersyesSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersSynchronous replication via Raftyes
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
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDAtomic execution of specific operationsACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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 developmentno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsLDAP bind authenticationnono infoPlanned for future releases

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