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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Drizzle vs. Galaxybase vs. MarkLogic

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Name

Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

MySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.

Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platform

Operational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL database

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Document store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store

as of version 7
Search engine

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Score	2.47
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#377	Overall
	#40	Graph DBMS

Score	5.18
Rank	#63	Overall
	#11	Document stores
	#1	Native XML DBMS
	#1	RDF stores
	#7	Search engines

Website

www.4d.com

galaxybase.com

www.progress.com/marklogic

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

www.progress.com/marklogic/documentation

Developer

4D, Inc

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Chuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司

MarkLogic Corp.

Initial release

1984

2008

2017

2001

Current release

v20, April 2023

7.2.4, September 2012

Nov 20, November 2021

11.0, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GNU GPL

commercial

restricted free version is available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C and Java

C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Strong typed schema

schema-free

Schema can be enforced

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

with proprietary extensions

yes

SQL92

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

JDBC

Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API

Java API
Node.js Client API
ODBC
proprietary Optic API

Proprietary Query API, introduced with version 9
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
WebDAV
XDBC
XQuery
XSLT

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

C
C++
Java
PHP

Go
Java
Python

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined procedures and functions

yes

via XQuery or JavaScript

Triggers

yes

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via Hadoop Connector, HDFS Direct Access and in-database MapReduce jobs

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

can act as a resource manager in an XA/JTA transaction

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

yes, with Range Indexes

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

Role-based access control

Role-based access control at the document and subdocument levels

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