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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. BoltDB vs. JaguarDB vs. TerminusDB

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

An embedded key-value store for Go.

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

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Score	2.37
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.70
Rank	#225	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores
	#16	Vector DBMS

Score	0.19
Rank	#311	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

github.com/boltdb/bolt

www.jaguardb.com

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

4D, Inc

DataJaguar, Inc.

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

1984

2013

2015

2018

Current release

v20, April 2023

3.3 July 2023

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

GPL V3.0

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

JDBC
ODBC

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

none

Multi-source replication

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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 journaling

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

rights management via user accounts

Role-based access control

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