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DBMS > 4D vs. BigObject vs. Blazegraph vs. Cachelot.io vs. CouchDB

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. BigObject vs. Blazegraph vs. Cachelot.io vs. CouchDB

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonCachelot.io  Xexclude from comparisonCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparison
Amazon has acquired Blazegraph's domain and (probably) product. It is said that Amazon Neptune is based on Blazegraph.
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesHigh-performance graph database supporting Semantic Web (RDF/SPARQL) and Graph Database (tinkerpop3, blueprints, vertex-centric) APIs with scale-out and High Availability.In-memory caching systemA native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedGraph DBMS
RDF store
Key-value storeDocument store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extension
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Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#333  Overall
#147  Relational DBMS
Score0.75
Rank#219  Overall
#19  Graph DBMS
#8  RDF stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Score9.30
Rank#45  Overall
#7  Document stores
Websitewww.4d.combigobject.ioblazegraph.comcachelot.iocouchdb.apache.org
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comdocs.bigobject.iowiki.blazegraph.comdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stable
Developer4D, IncBigObject, Inc.BlazegraphApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developer
Initial release19842015200620152005
Current releasev20, April 20232.1.5, March 20193.3.3, December 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoextended commercial license availableOpen Source infoSimplified BSD LicenseOpen Source infoApache version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++Erlang
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
Linux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Linux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Android
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infoRDF literal typesnono
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 indexesyesyesyesnoyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92SQL-like DML and DDL statementsSPARQL is used as query languagenono
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3
Memcached protocolRESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesLuayesnoView functions in JavaScript
Triggersyesnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingnoneSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationnoneyesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationnoneEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesyes infoRelationships in Graphsnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDnono infoatomic operations within a single document possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyesyes infostrategy: optimistic locking
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesnoyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsnoSecurity and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)noAccess rights for users can be defined per database

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