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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. TerminusDB vs. TigerGraph vs. Trino

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

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

Fast distributed SQL query engine for big data analytics. Forked from Presto and originally named PrestoSQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

Document store
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Wide column store

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Score	2.37
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.19
Rank	#311	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Score	1.44
Rank	#152	Overall
	#14	Graph DBMS

Score	5.28
Rank	#61	Overall
	#35	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

docs.tigergraph.com

trino.io/broadcast
trino.io/docs/current

Developer

4D, Inc

DataChemist Ltd.

Trino Software Foundation

Initial release

1984

2018

2017

2012

2020 rebranded from PrestoSQL

Current release

v20, April 2023

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Prolog, Rust

C++

Java

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux
macOS

for devlopment

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

depending on connected data-source

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

SQL-like query language (GSQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

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

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Trino CLI

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

JavaScript
Python

C++
Java

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

yes, depending on connected data-source

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Graph Partitioning

depending on connected data-source

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Journaling Streams

depending on connected data-source

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

depending on connected data-source

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

depending on connected data-source

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory journaling

yes

depending on connected data-source

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

Role-based access control

SQL standard access control

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