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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. HugeGraph vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

Database as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL Server

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	2.47
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#335	Overall
	#31	Graph DBMS

Score	76.78
Rank	#16	Overall
	#11	Relational DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

www.4d.com

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/azure-sql/database

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

4D, Inc

Baidu

Microsoft

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

1984

2018

2010

2013

Current release

v20, April 2023

0.9

V12

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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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

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

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

Secondary indexes

yes

also supports composite index and range index

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

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

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

Groovy
Java
Python

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

Transact 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

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

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

yes, with always 3 replicas available

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

via hugegraph-spark

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

edges in graph

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

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

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

Users, roles and permissions

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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