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DBMS > 4D vs. KeyDB vs. Memgraph vs. openGauss vs. Postgres-XL

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. KeyDB vs. Memgraph vs. openGauss vs. Postgres-XL

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonKeyDB  Xexclude from comparisonMemgraph  Xexclude from comparisonopenGauss  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemAn ultra-fast, open source Key-value store fully compatible with Redis API, modules, and protocolsAn open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4jAn enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with high-performance, high-availability and high-performance originally developed by HuaweiBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeGraph DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.47
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.70
Rank#229  Overall
#32  Key-value stores
Score3.19
Rank#94  Overall
#8  Graph DBMS
Score1.06
Rank#184  Overall
#84  Relational DBMS
Score0.53
Rank#254  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comgithub.com/­Snapchat/­KeyDB
keydb.dev
memgraph.comgitee.com/­opengauss
opengauss.org
www.postgres-xl.org
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comdocs.keydb.devmemgraph.com/­docsdocs.opengauss.org/­en
gitee.com/­opengauss/­docs
www.postgres-xl.org/­documentation
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebookGitHubDiscord
Developer4D, IncEQ Alpha Technology Ltd.Memgraph LtdHuawei and openGauss community
Initial release19842019201720192014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB
Current releasev20, April 20233.0, March 202210 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSD-3Open Source infoBSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition availableOpen SourceOpen Source infoMozilla public license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C and C++C, C++, JavaC
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
LinuxLinuxLinuxLinux
macOS
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-free and schema-optionalyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyespartial infoSupported data types are strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets, bit arrays, hyperloglogs and geospatial indexesyesyesyes
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.yesnononoyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionality
Secondary indexesyesyes infoby using the Redis Search moduleyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92nonoANSI SQL 2011yes infodistributed, parallel query execution
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
Proprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocoBolt protocol
Cypher query language
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Crystal
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Fancy
Go
Haskell
Haxe
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Pascal
Perl
PHP
Prolog
Pure Data
Python
R
Rebol
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Swift
Tcl
Visual Basic
.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C++
Java
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesLuayesuser defined functions
Triggersyesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infodynamic graph partitioninghorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash)horizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication using RAFTSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Strong eventual consistency with CRDTs
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes inforelationships in graphsyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDOptimistic locking, atomic execution of commands blocks and scriptsACID infowith snapshot isolationACIDACID infoMVCC
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoConfigurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logsyes infowith periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupssimple password-based access control and ACLUsers, roles and permissionsAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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4D infoformer name: 4th DimensionKeyDBMemgraphopenGaussPostgres-XL
Specific characteristicsMemgraph directly connects to your streaming infrastructure so you and your team...
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Competitive advantagesBusiness Source License ensures a future for the Memgraph community MAGE algorithm...
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Typical application scenariosGraph algorithms in bioinformatics Social network analysis Cryptocurrency network...
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