DBMS > 4D vs. Apache Impala vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. SQLite vs. TigerGraph

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

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Name

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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

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

A complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	2.58
Rank	#108	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	13.77
Rank	#40	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	1.83
Rank	#139	Overall
	#13	Graph DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

impala.apache.org

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

www.sqlite.org

www.tigergraph.com

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

docs.tigergraph.com

Developer

4D, Inc

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

Atos Convergence Creators

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

1984

2013

2016

2000

2017

Current release

v20, April 2023

4.1.0, June 2022

1703

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux

server-less

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

yes

dynamic column types

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

SQL-like query language (GSQL)

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

JDBC
ODBC

LDAP

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

All languages with LDAP bindings

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

C++
Java

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

yes

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

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic execution of specific operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles

based on Apache Sentry and Kerberos

LDAP bind authentication

Role-based access control

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