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DBMS > 4D vs. Dgraph vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. openGauss vs. Valentina Server

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Dgraph vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. openGauss vs. Valentina Server

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonopenGauss  Xexclude from comparisonValentina Server  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemDistributed and scalable native Graph DBMSElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerAn enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with high-performance, high-availability and high-performance originally developed by HuaweiObject-relational database and reports server
Primary database modelRelational DBMSGraph DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.47
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score1.53
Rank#152  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score19.93
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score1.06
Rank#184  Overall
#84  Relational DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#325  Overall
#144  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comdgraph.ioazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticsgitee.com/­opengauss
opengauss.org
www.valentina-db.net
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comdgraph.io/­docsdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticsdocs.opengauss.org/­en
gitee.com/­opengauss/­docs
valentina-db.com/­docs/­dokuwiki/­v5/­doku.php
Developer4D, IncDgraph Labs, Inc.MicrosoftHuawei and openGauss communityParadigma Software
Initial release19842016201620191999
Current releasev20, April 20233.0, March 20225.7.5
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Sourcecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageGoC++C, C++, Java
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92noyesANSI SQL 2011yes
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
PHP
C
C++
Java
.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoTransact SQLyesyes
Triggersyesnonoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyesSharding, horizontal partitioninghorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationSynchronous replication via RaftyesSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsno infoPlanned for future releasesyesAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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