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DBMS > 4D vs. RDF4J vs. SpatiaLite vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. RDF4J vs. SpatiaLite vs. SwayDB

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.Spatial extension of SQLiteAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRDF storeSpatial DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.69
Rank#230  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score1.60
Rank#149  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Websitewww.4d.comrdf4j.orgwww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­indexswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comrdf4j.org/­documentationwww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.html
Developer4D, IncSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.Alessandro FurieriSimer Plaha
Initial release1984200420082018
Current releasev20, April 20235.0.0, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.Open Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1Open Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++Scala
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
server-less
Data schemeyesyes infoRDF Schemasyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesno
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 indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92noyesno
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
Java
PHP
Python
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesnono
Triggersyesyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationnonenonenone
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 integrityyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usedACIDAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsnonono

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