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

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparisonTigerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemA relational database management system that stores data in columnsA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDBKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing methodA complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeKey-value storeGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS
Search engine
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Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score0.79
Rank#211  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Score1.83
Rank#139  Overall
#13  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comwww.monetdb.orgrockset.comgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4www.tigergraph.com
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comwww.monetdb.org/­Documentationdocs.rockset.comdocs.tigergraph.com
Developer4D, IncMonetDB BVRocksetSTS Soft SC
Initial release19842004201920112017
Current releasev20, April 2023Dec2023 (11.49), December 20234.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageCC++C#C++
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hostedWindowsLinux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesdynamic typingyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)yes
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.yesno infoingestion from XML files supportedno
Secondary indexesyesyesall fields are automatically indexedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92yes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsRead-only SQL queries, including JOINsnoSQL-like query language (GSQL)
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
JDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
HTTP REST.NET Client APIGSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
Java
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes, in SQL, C, Rnonoyes
Triggersyesyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding via remote tablesAutomatic shardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationnone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonoyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset consolenoRole-based access control

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