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DBMS > 4D vs. TerminusDB vs. Titan vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. TerminusDB vs. Titan vs. Trafodion

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparisonTitan  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
Titan has been decommisioned after the takeover by Datastax. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking. A fork has been open-sourced as JanusGraph.Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationshipsTitan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSGraph DBMSGraph DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
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Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#325  Overall
#29  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comterminusdb.comgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titantrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#github.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan/­wikitrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
Developer4D, IncDataChemist Ltd.Aurelius, owned by DataStaxApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release1984201820122014
Current releasev20, April 202311.0.0, January 20232.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3Open Source infoApache license, version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageProlog, RustJavaC++, Java
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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 indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92SQL-like query language (WOQL)noyes
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
JavaScript
Python
Clojure
Java
Python
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesyesJava Stored Procedures
Triggersyesyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneGraph Partitioningyes infovia pluggable storage backendsSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationJournaling Streamsyesyes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engineyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyes infoRelationships in graphyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoin-memory journalingyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcastyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsRole-based access controlUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Serverfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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