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DBMS > 4D vs. Dolt vs. Fauna vs. HugeGraph vs. SpatiaLite

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Dolt vs. Fauna vs. HugeGraph vs. SpatiaLite

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonDolt  Xexclude from comparisonFauna infopreviously named FaunaDB  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemA MySQL compatible DBMS with Git-like versioning of data and schemaFauna provides a web-native interface, with support for GraphQL and custom business logic that integrates seamlessly with the rest of the serverless ecosystem. The underlying globally distributed storage and compute platform is fast, consistent, and reliable, with a modern security infrastructure.A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSSpatial extension of SQLite
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Graph DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeRelational DBMS
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Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.96
Rank#193  Overall
#90  Relational DBMS
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#26  Document stores
#14  Graph DBMS
#71  Relational DBMS
#13  Time Series DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#336  Overall
#32  Graph DBMS
Score1.60
Rank#149  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comgithub.com/­dolthub/­dolt
www.dolthub.com
fauna.comgithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
www.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­index
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comdocs.dolthub.comdocs.fauna.comhugegraph.apache.org/­docswww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.html
Developer4D, IncDoltHub IncFauna, Inc.BaiduAlessandro Furieri
Initial release19842018201420182008
Current releasev20, April 20230.95.0.0, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageGoScalaJavaC++
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
hostedLinux
macOS
Unix
server-less
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes
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.yesnononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infoalso supports composite index and range indexyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92yesnonoyes
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
CLI Client
HTTP REST
RESTful HTTP APIJava API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift
Groovy
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infocurrently in alpha releaseuser defined functionsasynchronous Gremlin script jobsno
Triggersyesyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonehorizontal partitioning infoconsistent hashingyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBasenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationA database can be cloned to multiple locations and be used there in isolation. Data/schema changes can be pushed/pulled explicitly between locations.Multi-source replicationyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBasenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononovia hugegraph-sparkno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesyes infoedges in graphyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.nonoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsOnly one user is configurable, and must be specified in the config file at startupIdentity management, authentication, and access controlUsers, roles and permissionsno

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