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DBMS > 4D vs. JanusGraph vs. TypeDB vs. Vitess

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. JanusGraph vs. TypeDB vs. Vitess

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonJanusGraph infosuccessor of Titan  Xexclude from comparisonTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn  Xexclude from comparisonVitess  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemA Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters infoIt was forked from the latest code base of Titan in January 2017TypeDB provides developers with an expressive, customizable type system to manage their data using an award-winning query language, TypeQL, while building on a high-performance, distributed architecture.Scalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSGraph DBMSGraph DBMS infoThe type-theoretic data model of TypeDB subsumes the graph database model.
Object oriented DBMS infoThe data model of TypeDB comprises object-oriented features such as class inheritance and interfaces.
Relational DBMS infoThe type-theoretic data model of TypeDB subsumes the relational database model.
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.37
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score1.85
Rank#134  Overall
#12  Graph DBMS
Score0.65
Rank#230  Overall
#20  Graph DBMS
#9  Object oriented DBMS
#107  Relational DBMS
Score0.86
Rank#202  Overall
#95  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comjanusgraph.orgtypedb.comvitess.io
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comdocs.janusgraph.orgtypedb.com/­docsvitess.io/­docs
Developer4D, IncLinux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by AureliusVaticleThe Linux Foundation, PlanetScale
Initial release1984201720162013
Current releasev20, April 20231.0.0, October 20232.28.3, June 202415.0.2, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL Version 3, commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaGo
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.yesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92nonoyes infowith proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
gRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (IDE)
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
Clojure
Java
Python
All JVM based languages
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesnoyes infoproprietary syntax
Triggersyesyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyes infodepending on the used storage backend (e.g. Cassandra, HBase, BerkeleyDB)noSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyesSynchronous replication via raftMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics enginenono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes infoRelationships in graphsno infosubstituted by the relationship featureyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACID at shard level
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engine
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcastyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Serveryes infoat REST API level; other APIs in progressUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles
More information provided by the system vendor
4D infoformer name: 4th DimensionJanusGraph infosuccessor of TitanTypeDB infoformerly named GraknVitess
Specific characteristicsTypeDB is a polymorphic database with a conceptual data model, a strong subtyping...
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Competitive advantagesTypeDB provides a new level of expressivity, extensibility, interoperability, and...
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Typical application scenariosLife sciences : TypeDB makes working with biological data much easier and accelerates...
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Licensing and pricing modelsApache f or language drivers, and AGPL and Commercial for the database server. The...
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