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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Brytlyt vs. GeoMesa vs. HugeGraph vs. OpenQM

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Scalable GPU-accelerated RDBMS for very fast analytic and streaming workloads, leveraging PostgreSQL

GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.

A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

Primary database model

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	2.58
Rank	#108	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#288	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Score	0.78
Rank	#213	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#336	Overall
	#32	Graph DBMS

Score	0.27
Rank	#298	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

brytlyt.io

www.geomesa.org

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-open-qm

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

docs.brytlyt.io

www.geomesa.org/documentation/stable/user/index.html

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

Developer

4D, Inc

Brytlyt

CCRi and others

Baidu

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

Initial release

1984

2016

2014

2018

1993

Current release

v20, April 2023

5.0, August 2023

4.0.5, February 2024

0.9

3.4-12

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++ and CUDA

Scala

Java

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS
Unix

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

with some exceptions

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

specific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

also supports composite index and range index

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
Python
Tcl

Groovy
Java
Python

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

in PL/pgSQL

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

depending on storage layer

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication

depending on storage layer

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via hugegraph-spark

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

depending on storage layer

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

edges in graph

Transaction concepts

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

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.

depending on storage layer

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

Users, roles and permissions

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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