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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Memgraph vs. XTDB

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

An open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4j

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	2.58
Rank	#108	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	1.77
Rank	#141	Overall
	#65	Relational DBMS

Score	3.02
Rank	#98	Overall
	#8	Graph DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#343	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

www.4d.com

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

memgraph.com

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

Social network pages

Developer

4D, Inc

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Memgraph Ltd

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

1984

2016

2017

2019

Current release

v20, April 2023

5.10, January 2022

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

Open Source

BSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++ and CUDA

C and C++

Clojure

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free and schema-optional

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

yes

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Round robin

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Multi-source replication using RAFT

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

with snapshot isolation

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changes

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users, roles and permissions

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Typical application scenarios

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Licensing and pricing models

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