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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Apache Impala vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. RDF4J

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Name

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

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

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

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

RDF store

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	2.68
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	14.03
Rank	#40	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

Score	0.71
Rank	#231	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Website

www.4d.com

impala.apache.org

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

rdf4j.org

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

rdf4j.org/documentation

Developer

4D, Inc

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

Atos Convergence Creators

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

Initial release

1984

2013

2016

2004

Current release

v20, April 2023

4.1.0, June 2022

1703

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

yes

RDF Schemas

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

JDBC
ODBC

LDAP

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

All languages with LDAP bindings

Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

cell division

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

selectable replication factor

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic execution of specific operations

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

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 rights for users, groups and roles

based on Apache Sentry and Kerberos

LDAP bind authentication

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