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DBMS > 4D vs. Graph Engine vs. HEAVY.AI vs. RisingWave

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Graph Engine vs. HEAVY.AI vs. RisingWave

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonRisingWave  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemA 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 hardwareA distributed RDBMS for stream processing, wire-compatible with PostgreSQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Key-value store
Relational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.61
Rank#240  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#35  Key-value stores
Score1.77
Rank#141  Overall
#65  Relational DBMS
Score0.58
Rank#242  Overall
#111  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comwww.graphengine.iogithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
www.risingwave.com/­database
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comwww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualdocs.heavy.aidocs.risingwave.com/­docs/­current/­intro
Developer4D, IncMicrosoftHEAVY.AI, Inc.RisingWave Labs
Initial release1984201020162022
Current releasev20, April 20235.10, January 20221.2, September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation language.NET and CC++ and CUDARust
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
.NETLinuxDocker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesStandard SQL-types and JSON
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.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92noyesyes
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
RESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesnoUDFs in Python or Java
Triggersyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioningSharding infoRound robin
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesoptional: 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.noyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers and Roles

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4D infoformer name: 4th DimensionGraph Engine infoformer name: TrinityHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022RisingWave
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