DBMS > 4D vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. JanusGraph vs. MariaDB vs. SQream DB

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. JanusGraph vs. MariaDB vs. SQream DB

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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

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

A Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters

It was forked from the latest code base of Titan in January 2017

MySQL application compatible open source RDBMS, enhanced with high availability, security, interoperability and performance capabilities. MariaDB ColumnStore provides a column-oriented storage engine and MariaDB Xpand supports distributed SQL.

a GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with OQGraph storage engine
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	2.58
Rank	#108	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	1.94
Rank	#129	Overall
	#12	Graph DBMS

Score	93.21
Rank	#13	Overall
	#9	Relational DBMS

Score	0.70
Rank	#227	Overall
	#104	Relational DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

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

janusgraph.org

mariadb.com

Site of MariaDB Corporation
mariadb.org

Site of MariaDB Foundation

sqream.com

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

docs.janusgraph.org

mariadb.com/kb/en/library

docs.sqream.com

Developer

4D, Inc

Atos Convergence Creators

Linux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by Aurelius

MariaDB Corporation Ab (MariaDB Enterprise),
MariaDB Foundation (community MariaDB Server)

The lead developer Monty Widenius is the original author of MySQL

SQream Technologies

Initial release

1984

2016

2017

2009

Fork of MySQL, which was first released in 1995

2017

Current release

v20, April 2023

1703

0.6.3, February 2023

11.3.2, February 2024

2022.1.6, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial enterprise subscription available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
Solaris
Windows

ColumnStore storage engine not available on Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

yes

Dynamic columns are supported

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

yes

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

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

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

LDAP

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

.Net
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

All languages with LDAP bindings

Clojure
Java
Python

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

PL/SQL compatibility added with version 10.3

user defined functions in Python

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

cell division

yes

depending on the used storage backend (e.g. Cassandra, HBase, BerkeleyDB)

several options for horizontal partitioning and Sharding

horizontal and vertical partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via Faunus, a graph analytics engine

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic execution of specific operations

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Supports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast

yes

not for in-memory storage engine

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

with MEMORY storage engine

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

LDAP bind authentication

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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