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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. FatDB vs. Neo4j

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Name

FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.

Scalable, ACID-compliant graph database designed with a high-performance distributed cluster architecture, available in self-hosted and cloud offerings

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Graph DBMS

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Score	2.89
Rank	#107	Overall
	#56	Relational DBMS

Score	60.14
Rank	#19	Overall
	#1	Graph DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

neo4j.com

Technical documentation

livedoc.4d.com

neo4j.com/docs

Developer

4D, Inc

FatCloud

Neo4j, Inc.

Initial release

1984

2012

2007

Current release

v18 R5, January 2021

4.4.6, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL version3, commercial licenses available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java, Scala

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Windows

Linux

Can also be used server-less as embedded Java database.
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

schema-free and schema-optional

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

pluggable indexing subsystem, by default Apache Lucene

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

Via inetgration in SQL Server

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language
Java API
Neo4j-OGM

Object Graph Mapper
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data Neo4j
TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

.Net
Clojure
Elixir
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

via applications

yes

User defined Procedures and Functions

Triggers

yes

via applications

yes

via event handler

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

yes using Neo4j Fabric

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

selectable replication factor

Causal Clustering using Raft protocol

available in in Enterprise Version only

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Causal and Eventual Consistency configurable in Causal Cluster setup
Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

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

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

Can implement custom security layer via applications

Users, roles and permissions. Pluggable authentication with supported standards (LDAP, Active Directory, Kerberos)

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