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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Blazegraph vs. HyperSQL vs. PouchDB vs. searchxml

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDB  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  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.Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java infoalso known as HSQLDBJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server
Primary database modelRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMSDocument storeNative XML DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.47
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.81
Rank#213  Overall
#19  Graph DBMS
#8  RDF stores
Score3.23
Rank#93  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
Score2.34
Rank#112  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score0.03
Rank#390  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#24  Search engines
Websitewww.4d.comblazegraph.comhsqldb.orgpouchdb.comwww.searchxml.net/­category/­products
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comwiki.blazegraph.comhsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.htmlpouchdb.com/­guideswww.searchxml.net/­support/­handouts
Developer4D, IncBlazegraphApache Software Foundationinformationpartners gmbh
Initial release19842006200120122015
Current releasev20, April 20232.1.5, March 20192.7.2, June 20237.1.1, June 20191.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoextended commercial license availableOpen Source infobased on BSD licenseOpen Sourcecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJavaScriptC++
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VM infoEmbedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modesserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infoRDF literal typesyesnoyes
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.yesnonoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92SPARQL is used as query languageyesnono
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
HTTP API infoJDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java
JavaScriptC++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIs
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesJava, SQLView functions in JavaScriptyes infoon the application server
Triggersyesnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnoneSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyesnoneMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
yes infosychronisation to multiple collections
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes infoRelationships in Graphsyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDnomultiple readers, single writer
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsSecurity and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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