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DBMS > 4D vs. Blazegraph vs. Dragonfly vs. Manticore Search

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Blazegraph vs. Dragonfly vs. Manticore Search

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  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 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 instanceMulti-storage database for search, including full-text search.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Key-value storeSearch engine
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar Library
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Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.75
Rank#219  Overall
#19  Graph DBMS
#8  RDF stores
Score0.41
Rank#266  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score0.22
Rank#312  Overall
#21  Search engines
Websitewww.4d.comblazegraph.comgithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
manticoresearch.com
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comwiki.blazegraph.comwww.dragonflydb.io/­docsmanual.manticoresearch.com
Developer4D, IncBlazegraphDragonflyDB team and community contributorsManticore Software
Initial release1984200620232017
Current releasev20, April 20232.1.5, March 20191.0, March 20236.0, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoextended commercial license availableOpen Source infoBSL 1.1Open Source infoGPL version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++C++
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freescheme-freeFixed schema
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infoRDF literal typesstrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Boolean
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.yesnoCan index from XML
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92SPARQL is used as query languagenoSQL-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 ProtocolBinary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
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
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesLuauser defined functions
Triggersyesnopublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalityno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyesSource-replica replicationSynchronous replication based on Galera library
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes infoRelationships in Graphsnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, strict serializability by the serveryes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsSecurity and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)Password-based authenticationno

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