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DBMS > 4D vs. Dgraph vs. Kinetica vs. LokiJS vs. Postgres-XL

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Dgraph vs. Kinetica vs. LokiJS vs. Postgres-XL

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemDistributed and scalable native Graph DBMSFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsIn-memory JavaScript DBMSBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features
Primary database modelRelational DBMSGraph DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score1.45
Rank#156  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score0.64
Rank#236  Overall
#109  Relational DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score0.49
Rank#256  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comdgraph.iowww.kinetica.comgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSwww.postgres-xl.org
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comdgraph.io/­docsdocs.kinetica.comtechfort.github.io/­LokiJSwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentation
Developer4D, IncDgraph Labs, Inc.Kinetica
Initial release19842016201220142014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB
Current releasev20, April 20237.1, August 202110 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoMozilla public license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoC, C++JavaScriptC
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes
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.yesnononoyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionality
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92noSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoyes infodistributed, parallel query execution
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JavaScript APIADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScript.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnouser defined functionsView functions in JavaScriptuser defined functions
Triggersyesnoyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyesShardingnonehorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationSynchronous replication via RaftSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationnoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnono infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACID infoMVCC
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsno infoPlanned for future releasesAccess rights for users and roles on table levelnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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