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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. HugeGraph vs. MaxDB vs. TigerGraph vs. TimesTen

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

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

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Primary database model

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Score	2.68
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.15
Rank	#339	Overall
	#33	Graph DBMS

Score	2.65
Rank	#111	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	1.83
Rank	#141	Overall
	#13	Graph DBMS

Score	1.35
Rank	#165	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

maxdb.sap.com

www.tigergraph.com

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

docs.tigergraph.com

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

4D, Inc

Baidu

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

1984

2018

1984

2017

1998

Current release

v20, April 2023

0.9

7.9.10.12, February 2024

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Limited community edition free

commercial

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

Linux
macOS
Unix

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

yes

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

Secondary indexes

yes

also supports composite index and range index

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

SQL-like query language (GSQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

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

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

Groovy
Java
Python

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

C++
Java

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

yes

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

via hugegraph-spark

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

edges in graph

yes

Relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

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

Users, roles and permissions

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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