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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Dolt vs. JanusGraph vs. mSQL vs. SpatiaLite

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

A MySQL compatible DBMS with Git-like versioning of data and schema

A Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters

It was forked from the latest code base of Titan in January 2017

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

Spatial extension of SQLite

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store

Relational DBMS

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Score	2.58
Rank	#108	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.96
Rank	#193	Overall
	#90	Relational DBMS

Score	1.94
Rank	#129	Overall
	#12	Graph DBMS

Score	1.27
Rank	#167	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

Score	1.60
Rank	#149	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

github.com/dolthub/dolt
www.dolthub.com

janusgraph.org

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

docs.dolthub.com

docs.janusgraph.org

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

Developer

4D, Inc

DoltHub Inc

Linux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by Aurelius

Hughes Technologies

Alessandro Furieri

Initial release

1984

2018

2017

1994

2008

Current release

v20, April 2023

0.6.3, February 2023

4.4, October 2021

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

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

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

CLI Client
HTTP REST

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

4D 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

Clojure
Java
Python

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

currently in alpha release

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

depending on the used storage backend (e.g. Cassandra, HBase, BerkeleyDB)

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

A database can be cloned to multiple locations and be used there in isolation. Data/schema changes can be pushed/pulled explicitly between locations.

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via Faunus, a graph analytics engine

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

yes

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

Supports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast

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

Only one user is configurable, and must be specified in the config file at startup

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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