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DBMS > 4D vs. Memgraph vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Postgres-XL vs. TypeDB

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Memgraph vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Postgres-XL vs. TypeDB

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonMemgraph  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Coherence  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemAn open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4jOracles in-memory data grid solutionBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresTypeDB is a strongly-typed database with a rich and logical type system and TypeQL as its query language
Primary database modelRelational DBMSGraph DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Relational DBMS infoOften described as a 'hyper-relational' database, since it implements the 'Entity-Relationship Paradigm' to manage complex data structures and ontologies.
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score3.02
Rank#98  Overall
#8  Graph DBMS
Score1.92
Rank#130  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Score0.49
Rank#256  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score0.65
Rank#234  Overall
#20  Graph DBMS
#107  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.4d.commemgraph.comwww.oracle.com/­java/­coherencewww.postgres-xl.orgtypedb.com
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.commemgraph.com/­docsdocs.oracle.com/­en/­middleware/­standalone/­coherencewww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationtypedb.com/­docs
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebookGitHubDiscord
Developer4D, IncMemgraph LtdOracleVaticle
Initial release1984201720072014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB2016
Current releasev20, April 202314.1, August 202310 R1, October 20182.26.3, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen Source infoGPL Version 3, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC and C++JavaCJava
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
LinuxAll OS with a Java VMLinux
macOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-free and schema-optionalschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.yesnonoyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalityno
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92nonoyes infodistributed, parallel query executionno
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
Bolt protocol
Cypher query language
JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
gRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (Visualisation software- previously TypeDB Workbase)
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C++
Java
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
All JVM based languages
Groovy
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnouser defined functionsno
Triggersyesyes infoLive Eventsyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infodynamic graph partitioningShardinghorizontal partitioningSharding infoby using Cassandra
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication using RAFTyes, with selectable consistency levelMulti-source replication infoby using Cassandra
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes infoby using Apache Kafka and Apache Zookeeper
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes inforelationships in graphsnoyesno infosubstituted by the relationship feature
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID infowith snapshot isolationconfigurableACID infoMVCCACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infowith periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changesyes infooptionallyyesyes
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 groupsUsers, roles and permissionsauthentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authenticationfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infoat REST API level; other APIs in progress
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4D infoformer name: 4th DimensionMemgraphOracle CoherencePostgres-XLTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn
Specific characteristicsMemgraph directly connects to your streaming infrastructure so you and your team...
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TypeDB is a polymorphic database with a conceptual data model, a strong subtyping...
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Competitive advantagesBusiness Source License ensures a future for the Memgraph community MAGE algorithm...
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TypeDB provides a new level of expressivity, extensibility, interoperability, and...
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Typical application scenariosGraph algorithms in bioinformatics Social network analysis Cryptocurrency network...
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Life sciences : TypeDB makes working with biological data much easier and accelerates...
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Licensing and pricing modelsYou can check out our pricing model and licenses on the company website .
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