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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. DuckDB vs. Graph Engine vs. HEAVY.AI vs. WakandaDB

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonDuckDB  Xexclude from comparisonGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonWakandaDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemAn embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMSA distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engineA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareWakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Key-value store
Relational DBMSObject oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score2.47
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score4.63
Rank#69  Overall
#37  Relational DBMS
Score0.67
Rank#232  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#34  Key-value stores
Score1.64
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score0.10
Rank#356  Overall
#16  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comduckdb.orgwww.graphengine.iogithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
wakanda.github.io
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comduckdb.org/­docswww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualdocs.heavy.aiwakanda.github.io/­doc
Developer4D, IncMicrosoftHEAVY.AI, Inc.Wakanda SAS
Initial release19842018201020162012
Current releasev20, April 20231.0.0, June 20245.10, January 20222.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availableOpen Source infoAGPLv3, extended commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++.NET and CC++ and CUDAC++, JavaScript
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
server-less.NETLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
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.yesnononono
Secondary indexesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92yesnoyesno
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
Arrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
C
C# info3rd party driver
C++
Crystal info3rd party driver
Go info3rd party driver
Java
Lisp info3rd party driver
Python
R
Ruby info3rd party driver
Rust
Swift
Zig info3rd party driver
C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyesnoyes
Triggersyesnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonehorizontal partitioningSharding infoRound robinnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationnoneMulti-source replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesoptional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storageyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes

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