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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Bangdb vs. Quasardb vs. TerminusDB

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Converged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graph

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
RDF store

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Score	2.58
Rank	#108	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#347	Overall
	#47	Document stores
	#34	Graph DBMS
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.14
Rank	#332	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#325	Overall
	#29	Graph DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

docs.bangdb.com

doc.quasar.ai/master

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

4D, Inc

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

quasardb

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

1984

2012

2009

2018

Current release

v20, April 2023

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

3.14.1, January 2024

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD 3

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++

C++

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, events

yes

integer and binary

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

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

yes

with tags

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

SQL like support with command line tool

SQL-like query language

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithm

Sharding

consistent hashing

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

selectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, optimistic concurrency control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as well

yes

by using LevelDB

yes

in-memory journaling

In-memory capabilities

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

yes, run db with in-memory only mode

yes

Transient mode

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

yes (enterprise version only)

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

Role-based access control

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