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DBMS > 4D vs. BaseX vs. RethinkDB vs. TerminusDB vs. TigerGraph

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. BaseX vs. RethinkDB vs. TerminusDB vs. TigerGraph

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparisonTigerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationshipsA complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time
Primary database modelRelational DBMSNative XML DBMSDocument storeGraph DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument store
RDF store
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Score2.13
Rank#114  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score1.52
Rank#140  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score2.52
Rank#105  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score0.15
Rank#326  Overall
#30  Graph DBMS
Score1.40
Rank#152  Overall
#14  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.4d.combasex.orgrethinkdb.comterminusdb.comwww.tigergraph.com
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comdocs.basex.orgrethinkdb.com/­docsterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#docs.tigergraph.com
Developer4D, IncBaseX GmbHThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017DataChemist Ltd.
Initial release19842007200920182017
Current releasev20, April 202311.2, August 20242.4.1, August 202011.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoGPL V3commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++Prolog, RustC++
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesno infoXQuery supports typesyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometryyesyes
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.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92nonoSQL-like query language (WOQL)SQL-like query language (GSQL)
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
JavaScript
Python
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesyesyes
Triggersyesyes infovia eventsClient-side triggers through changefeedsyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding inforange basedGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationnoneSource-replica replicationJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDmultiple readers, single writerAtomic single-document operationsACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMVCC basedyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoin-memory journalingyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsyes infousers and table-level permissionsRole-based access controlRole-based access control

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