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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. MonetDB vs. ObjectBox vs. STSdb vs. TigerGraph

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

Lightweight, fast on-device database for IoT, Mobile and Embedded devices, persisting and synchronising objects and vectors

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

A complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Object oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS

Key-value store

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	2.13
Rank	#114	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	1.64
Rank	#137	Overall
	#62	Relational DBMS

Score	1.10
Rank	#173	Overall
	#6	Object oriented DBMS
	#10	Vector DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#362	Overall
	#55	Key-value stores

Score	1.40
Rank	#152	Overall
	#14	Graph DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

www.monetdb.org

github.com/objectbox
objectbox.io

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

www.tigergraph.com

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

docs.objectbox.io

docs.tigergraph.com

Developer

4D, Inc

MonetDB BV

ObjectBox Limited

STS Soft SC

Initial release

1984

2004

2017

2011

2017

Current release

v20, April 2023

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

4.0 (May 2024)

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

Bindings are released under Apache 2.0

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Android
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows

Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, plus "flex" map-like types

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

yes

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

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

SQL-like query language (GSQL)

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

Proprietary native API

.NET Client API

GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

C
C++
Dart (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift

C#
Java

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

yes, in SQL, C, R

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding via remote tables

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

Data sync between devices allowing occasional connected databases to work completely offline

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

Role-based access control

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