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DBMS > 4D vs. LokiJS vs. OpenEdge vs. Splice Machine vs. TigerGraph

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. LokiJS vs. OpenEdge vs. Splice Machine vs. TigerGraph

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonOpenEdge  Xexclude from comparisonSplice Machine  Xexclude from comparisonTigerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemIn-memory JavaScript DBMSApplication development environment with integrated database management systemOpen-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and SparkA complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.68
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.48
Rank#262  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score3.75
Rank#88  Overall
#47  Relational DBMS
Score0.54
Rank#255  Overall
#116  Relational DBMS
Score1.83
Rank#141  Overall
#13  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSwww.progress.com/­openedgesplicemachine.comwww.tigergraph.com
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comtechfort.github.io/­LokiJSdocumentation.progress.com/­output/­ua/­OpenEdge_latestsplicemachine.com/­how-it-worksdocs.tigergraph.com
Developer4D, IncProgress Software CorporationSplice Machine
Initial release19842014198420142017
Current releasev20, April 2023OpenEdge 12.2, March 20203.1, March 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen SourcecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0, commercial license availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaC++
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesyes
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.yesnoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyes infovia viewsyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92noyes infoclose to SQL 92yesSQL-like query language (GSQL)
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
JavaScript APIJDBC
ODBC
JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC
GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
JavaScriptProgress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesView functions in JavaScriptyesyes infoJavayes
Triggersyesyesyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonehorizontal partitioning infosince Version 11.4Shared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationnoneSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnoYes, via Full Spark Integrationyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyesyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsnoUsers and groupsAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardRole-based access control

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