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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. HugeGraph vs. MonetDB vs. Postgres-XL

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	2.58
Rank	#108	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#336	Overall
	#32	Graph DBMS

Score	1.72
Rank	#145	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#256	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

www.monetdb.org

www.postgres-xl.org

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

Developer

4D, Inc

Baidu

MonetDB BV

Initial release

1984

2018

2004

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

Current release

v20, April 2023

0.9

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

10 R1, October 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS
Unix

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS

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

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

also supports composite index and range index

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

Groovy
Java
Python

C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

yes, in SQL, C, R

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

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

Sharding via remote tables

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

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

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

MVCC

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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