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DBMS > 4D vs. Blazegraph vs. Dragonfly vs. Drizzle vs. Hyprcubd

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Blazegraph vs. Dragonfly vs. Drizzle vs. Hyprcubd

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonHyprcubd  Xexclude from comparison
Amazon has acquired Blazegraph's domain and (probably) product. It is said that Amazon Neptune is based on Blazegraph.Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.Hyprcubd seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemHigh-performance graph database supporting Semantic Web (RDF/SPARQL) and Graph Database (tinkerpop3, blueprints, vertex-centric) APIs with scale-out and High Availability.A drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instanceMySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.Serverless Time Series DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Key-value storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
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Score2.47
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.81
Rank#213  Overall
#19  Graph DBMS
#8  RDF stores
Score0.49
Rank#261  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Websitewww.4d.comblazegraph.comgithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
hyprcubd.com (offline)
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comwiki.blazegraph.comwww.dragonflydb.io/­docs
Developer4D, IncBlazegraphDragonflyDB team and community contributorsDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerHyprcubd, Inc.
Initial release1984200620232008
Current releasev20, April 20232.1.5, March 20191.0, March 20237.2.4, September 2012
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoextended commercial license availableOpen Source infoBSL 1.1Open Source infoGNU GPLcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
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Implementation languageJavaC++C++Go
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
hosted
Data schemeyesschema-freescheme-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infoRDF literal typesstrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysyesyes infotime, int, uint, float, string
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.yesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92SPARQL is used as query languagenoyes infowith proprietary extensionsSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3
Proprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolJDBCgRPC (https)
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Clojure
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Tcl
C
C++
Java
PHP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesLuanono
Triggersyesnopublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalityno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.no
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes infoRelationships in Graphsnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, strict serializability by the serveryesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsSecurity and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)Password-based authenticationPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPtoken access

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