DBMS > 4D vs. Blazegraph vs. DolphinDB vs. KairosDB vs. Microsoft SQL Server

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Blazegraph vs. DolphinDB vs. KairosDB vs. Microsoft SQL Server

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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

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

DolphinDB is a high performance Time Series DBMS. It is integrated with an easy-to-use fully featured programming language and a high-volume high-velocity streaming analytics system. It offers operational simplicity, scalability, fault tolerance, and concurrency.

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	2.47
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

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

Score	4.03
Rank	#78	Overall
	#6	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.67
Rank	#233	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	821.56
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

blazegraph.com

www.dolphindb.com

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

wiki.blazegraph.com

docs.dolphindb.cn/en/help200/index.html

kairosdb.github.io

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

Developer

4D, Inc

Blazegraph

DolphinDB, Inc

Microsoft

Initial release

1984

2006

2018

2013

1989

Current release

v20, April 2023

2.1.5, March 2019

v2.00.4, January 2022

1.2.2, November 2018

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

extended commercial license available

commercial

free community version available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

restricted free version is available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

RDF literal types

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

SPARQL is used as query language

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3

JDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

based on Cassandra

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in Graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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)

Administrators, Users, Groups

simple password-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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