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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. JanusGraph vs. JSqlDb vs. NCache

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Name

JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

A Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters

It was forked from the latest code base of Titan in January 2017

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

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Score	2.58
Rank	#108	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	1.94
Rank	#129	Overall
	#12	Graph DBMS

Score	0.94
Rank	#195	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Website

www.4d.com

janusgraph.org

jsqldb.org (offline)

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

docs.janusgraph.org

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

Developer

4D, Inc

Linux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by Aurelius

Konrad von Backstrom

Alachisoft

Initial release

1984

2017

2018

2005

Current release

v20, April 2023

0.6.3, February 2023

0.8, December 2018

5.3.3, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

partial

Supported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

SQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

Clojure
Java
Python

JavaScript

.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

functions in JavaScript

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

Triggers

yes

Notifications

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

depending on the used storage backend (e.g. Cassandra, HBase, BerkeleyDB)

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

none

yes, with selectable consistency level

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via Faunus, a graph analytics engine

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Supports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast

yes

using RocksDB

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

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

Authentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)

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