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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. HBase vs. MarkLogic vs. Quasardb vs. TerminusDB

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonMarkLogic  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableOperational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL databaseDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelRelational DBMSWide column storeDocument store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store infoas of version 7
Search engine
Time Series DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
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Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score30.50
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score5.92
Rank#58  Overall
#10  Document stores
#1  Native XML DBMS
#1  RDF stores
#6  Search engines
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#325  Overall
#29  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comhbase.apache.orgwww.marklogic.comquasar.aiterminusdb.com
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comhbase.apache.org/­book.htmldocs.marklogic.comdoc.quasar.ai/­masterterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
Developer4D, IncApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetMarkLogic Corp.quasardbDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release19842008200120092018
Current releasev20, April 20232.3.4, January 202111.0, December 20223.14.1, January 202411.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2commercial inforestricted free version is availablecommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++C++Prolog, Rust
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
Linux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Linux
OS X
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-free, schema definition possibleschema-free infoSchema can be enforcedschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesoptions to bring your own types, AVROyesyes infointeger and binaryyes
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.yesnoyesnono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92noyes infoSQL92SQL-like query languageSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
Java API
Node.js Client API
ODBC
proprietary Optic API infoProprietary Query API, introduced with version 9
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
WebDAV
XDBC
XQuery
XSLT
HTTP APIOWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infoCoprocessors in Javayes infovia XQuery or JavaScriptnoyes
Triggersyesyesyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingSharding infoconsistent hashingGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesSource-replica replication with selectable replication factorJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyes infovia Hadoop Connector, HDFS Direct Access and in-database MapReduce jobswith Hadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)ACID infocan act as a resource manager in an XA/JTA transactionACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoby using LevelDByes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes, with Range Indexesyes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACRole-based access control at the document and subdocument levelsCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailRole-based access control

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