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DBMS > 4D vs. Pinecone vs. SWC-DB vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Pinecone vs. SWC-DB vs. TerminusDB

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemA managed, cloud-native vector databaseA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMSScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelRelational DBMSVector DBMSWide column storeGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSDocument store
RDF store
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Score2.47
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score3.23
Rank#92  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#364  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comwww.pinecone.iogithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
terminusdb.com
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comdocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
Developer4D, IncPinecone Systems, IncAlex KashirinDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release1984201920202018
Current releasev20, April 20230.5, April 202111.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3Open Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageC++Prolog, Rust
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
hostedLinuxLinux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesString, Number, Booleanyes
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.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92noSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
RESTful HTTP APIProprietary protocol
Thrift
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
PythonC++JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyes
Triggersyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsRole-based access control

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