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DBMS > 4D vs. Graph Engine vs. STSdb vs. TinkerGraph

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Graph Engine vs. STSdb vs. TinkerGraph

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  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 engineKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing methodA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API
Primary database modelRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Key-value store
Key-value storeGraph 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
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Score0.08
Rank#348  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comwww.graphengine.iogithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4tinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlin
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comwww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manual
Developer4D, IncMicrosoftSTS Soft SC
Initial release1984201020112009
Current releasev20, April 20234.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation language.NET and CC#Java
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
.NETWindows
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)yes
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.yesnono
Secondary indexesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92nonono
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
RESTful HTTP API.NET Client APITinkerPop 3
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
C#
Java
Groovy
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesnono
Triggersyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioningnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesno
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 storageyesoptional
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsnono

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