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DBMS > 4D vs. atoti vs. NebulaGraph vs. RDFox vs. RethinkDB

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. atoti vs. NebulaGraph vs. RDFox vs. RethinkDB

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonatoti  Xexclude from comparisonNebulaGraph  Xexclude from comparisonRDFox  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemAn in-memory DBMS combining transactional and analytical processing to handle the aggregation of ever-changing data.A distributed, linear scalable, high perfomant Graph DBMSHigh performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engineDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSObject oriented DBMSGraph DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Document store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS
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Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.56
Rank#245  Overall
#10  Object oriented DBMS
Score2.14
Rank#120  Overall
#10  Graph DBMS
Score0.23
Rank#308  Overall
#25  Graph DBMS
#14  RDF stores
Score2.74
Rank#105  Overall
#19  Document stores
Websitewww.4d.comatoti.iogithub.com/­vesoft-inc/­nebula
www.nebula-graph.io
www.oxfordsemantic.techrethinkdb.com
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comdocs.atoti.iodocs.nebula-graph.iodocs.oxfordsemantic.techrethinkdb.com/­docs
Developer4D, IncActiveViamVesoft Inc.Oxford Semantic TechnologiesThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017
Initial release1984201920172009
Current releasev20, April 20236.0, Septermber 20222.4.1, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree versions availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0 + Common Clause 1.0commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++C++C++
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesStrong typed schemayes infoRDF schemasschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometry
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.yesnono
Secondary indexesyesyes infoNebula Graph internally uses the Key-Value store RocksDB for persistency. The vertices, edges, and their properties are stored as Key while their values are stored as Value. The primary indexes are per Key and secondary indexes are per Value.yes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92Multidimensional Expressions (MDX)SQL-like query languagenono
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
Browser interface
console (shell)
Cypher Query Language
GO Object Graph Mapper
Java Object Graph Mapper
NGBatis infoORM framework for NebulaGraph and Spring-Boot
Proprietary native API
Python Object Graph Mapper
Query language nGQL
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
.Net
C++
Go
Java
PHP
Python
C
Java
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesPythonuser defined functions
TriggersyesClient-side triggers through changefeeds
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding, horizontal partitioningShardingSharding inforange based
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationCausal Clustering using Raft protocolreplication via a shared file systemSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setupsImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes infoRelationships in graphsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDAtomic single-document operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes infoMVCC based
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing RocksDByesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsRole-based access controlRoles, resources, and access typesyes infousers and table-level permissions
More information provided by the system vendor
4D infoformer name: 4th DimensionatotiNebulaGraphRDFoxRethinkDB
Specific characteristicsNebulaGraph is a truly distributed, linearly scalable, lightning-fast graph database,...
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Competitive advantagesNebulaGraph boasts the world's only graph database solution that is able to host...
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Typical application scenariosSocial networking Fraud detection Knowledge graph Data warehouse management Anti...
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Key customersCompanies from a variety of industries have implemented NebulaGraph Database in production,...
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Market metricsAt our very early stage, NebulaGraph has already received over 10,000 stars on GitHub...
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Licensing and pricing modelsNebulaGraph is open source and free to use under Apache 2.0 license.
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