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DBMS > 4D vs. HugeGraph vs. IBM Cloudant vs. TinkerGraph

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. HugeGraph vs. IBM Cloudant vs. TinkerGraph

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemA fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API
Primary database modelRelational DBMSGraph DBMSDocument storeGraph DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#336  Overall
#32  Graph DBMS
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score0.08
Rank#348  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comgithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
www.ibm.com/­products/­cloudanttinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlin
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comhugegraph.apache.org/­docscloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudant
Developer4D, IncBaiduIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014
Initial release1984201820102009
Current releasev20, April 20230.9
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaErlangJava
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Unix
hosted
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes
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.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyes infoalso supports composite index and range indexyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92nonono
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
RESTful HTTP/JSON APITinkerPop 3
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
Groovy
Java
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Groovy
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesasynchronous Gremlin script jobsView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptno
Triggersyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnovia hugegraph-sparkyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes infoedges in graphnoyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possibleno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoOptimistic lockingno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesoptional
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsUsers, roles and permissionsAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseno

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