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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Hazelcast vs. Machbase Neo vs. TigerGraph vs. YottaDB

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

A complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time

A fast and solid embedded Key-value store

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

Relational DBMS

using the Octo plugin

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Score	2.47
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	5.46
Rank	#61	Overall
	#7	Key-value stores

Score	0.17
Rank	#337	Overall
	#30	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.80
Rank	#138	Overall
	#13	Graph DBMS

Score	0.28
Rank	#306	Overall
	#44	Key-value stores

Website

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

machbase.com/dbms

docs.tigergraph.com

yottadb.com/resources/documentation

Developer

4D, Inc

Hazelcast

Machbase

YottaDB, LLC

Initial release

1984

2008

2013

2017

2001

Current release

v20, April 2023

5.3.6, November 2023

V8.0, August 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

free test version available

commercial

Open Source

AGPL 3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Docker
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

the object must implement a serialization strategy

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

SQL-like query language

SQL-like query language (GSQL)

by using the Octo plugin

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC

GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

PostgreSQL wire protocol

using the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

C++
Java

C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

yes

Triggers

yes

Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

Replicated Map

selectable replication factor

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user

Raft Consensus Algorithm

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

one or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commited

ACID

optimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

volatile and lookup table

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

Role-based access control

simple password-based access control

Role-based access control

Users and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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