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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Dgraph vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. JaguarDB

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use cases

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Event Store
Time Series DBMS

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

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Score	2.58
Rank	#108	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	1.45
Rank	#156	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	0.19
Rank	#323	Overall
	#2	Event Stores
	#28	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores
	#13	Vector DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

dgraph.io

www.ibm.com/products/db2-event-store

www.jaguardb.com

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

dgraph.io/docs

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2-event-store

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

Developer

4D, Inc

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

IBM

DataJaguar, Inc.

Initial release

1984

2016

2017

2015

Current release

v20, April 2023

2.0

3.3 July 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free developer edition available

Open Source

GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition

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

yes

through the embedded Spark runtime

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API

ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

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

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Synchronous replication via Raft

Active-active shard replication

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

No - written data is immutable

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Yes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storage

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

Planned for future releases

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

rights management via user accounts

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