DBMS > 4D vs. BigObject vs. Blazegraph vs. GBase vs. Google Cloud Datastore

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. BigObject vs. Blazegraph vs. GBase vs. Google Cloud Datastore

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Name

Amazon has acquired Blazegraph's domain and (probably) product. It is said that Amazon Neptune is based on Blazegraph.

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

High-performance graph database supporting Semantic Web (RDF/SPARQL) and Graph Database (tinkerpop3, blueprints, vertex-centric) APIs with scale-out and High Availability.

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

Automatically scaling NoSQL Database as a Service (DBaaS) on the Google Cloud Platform

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Relational DBMS

Document store

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	2.47
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.19
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	0.81
Rank	#213	Overall
	#19	Graph DBMS
	#8	RDF stores

Score	1.05
Rank	#186	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	4.36
Rank	#72	Overall
	#12	Document stores

Website

cloud.google.com/datastore

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

docs.bigobject.io

wiki.blazegraph.com

cloud.google.com/datastore/docs

Developer

4D, Inc

BigObject, Inc.

Blazegraph

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Google

Initial release

1984

2015

2006

2004

2008

Current release

v20, April 2023

2.1.5, March 2019

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

extended commercial license available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C, Java, Python

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

RDF literal types

yes

yes, details here

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

SPARQL is used as query language

Standard with numerous extensions

SQL-like query language (GQL)

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Lua

yes

user defined functions

using Google App Engine

Triggers

yes

Callbacks using the Google Apps Engine

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

none

yes

Multi-source replication using Paxos

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

using Google Cloud Dataflow

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on type of query and configuration

Strong Consistency is default for entity lookups and queries within an Entity Group (but can instead be made eventually consistent). Other queries are always eventual consistent.

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

yes

Relationships in Graphs

yes

via ReferenceProperties or Ancestor paths

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Serializable Isolation within Transactions, Read Committed outside of Transactions

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

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

Security and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)

yes

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

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