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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. openGauss vs. TerminusDB

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonopenGauss  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemAn enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with high-performance, high-availability and high-performance originally developed by HuaweiScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Document store
RDF store
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Score2.68
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score1.05
Rank#189  Overall
#87  Relational DBMS
Score0.22
Rank#323  Overall
#28  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comgitee.com/­opengauss
opengauss.org
terminusdb.com
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comdocs.opengauss.org/­en
gitee.com/­opengauss/­docs
terminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
Developer4D, IncHuawei and openGauss communityDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release198420192018
Current releasev20, April 20233.0, March 202211.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC, C++, JavaProlog, Rust
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
Data schemeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes
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 indexesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92ANSI SQL 2011SQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
JDBC
ODBC
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesyes
Triggersyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash)Graph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationSource-replica replicationJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoin-memory journaling
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 groupsAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardRole-based access control

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