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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Graph Engine vs. RDFox vs. TerminusDB

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engine

High performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
RDF store

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Score	2.37
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.56
Rank	#241	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#34	Key-value stores

Score	0.22
Rank	#305	Overall
	#25	Graph DBMS
	#15	RDF stores

Score	0.19
Rank	#311	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

www.graphengine.io

www.oxfordsemantic.tech

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

docs.oxfordsemantic.tech

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

4D, Inc

Microsoft

Oxford Semantic Technologies

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

1984

2010

2017

2018

Current release

v20, April 2023

6.0, Septermber 2022

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

.NET and C

C++

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

.NET

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

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

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

C
Java

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

replication via a shared file system

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

optional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storage

yes

in-memory journaling

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

Roles, resources, and access types

Role-based access control

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