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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. SpatiaLite vs. Speedb vs. TigerGraph vs. ToroDB

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Name

ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Spatial extension of SQLite

An embeddable, high performance key-value store optimized for write-intensive workloads, which can be used as a drop-in replacement for RocksDB

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

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	2.58
Rank	#108	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	1.60
Rank	#149	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.21
Rank	#315	Overall
	#45	Key-value stores

Score	1.83
Rank	#139	Overall
	#13	Graph DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

www.speedb.io

www.tigergraph.com

github.com/torodb/server

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

docs.tigergraph.com

Developer

4D, Inc

Alessandro Furieri

Speedb

8Kdata

Initial release

1984

2008

2020

2017

2016

Current release

v20, April 2023

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0; commercial license available

commercial

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

server-less

Linux
Windows

Linux

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

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-like query language (GSQL)

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

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

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

none

yes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

Role-based access control

Access rights for users and roles

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Licensing and pricing models

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