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DBMS > 4D vs. AlaSQL vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. atoti vs. BigchainDB

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. AlaSQL vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. atoti vs. BigchainDB

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonatoti  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemJavaScript DBMS libraryHosted simple database service by Amazon, with the data stored in the Amazon Cloud. infoThere is an unrelated product called SimpleDB developed by Edward ScioreAn in-memory DBMS combining transactional and analytical processing to handle the aggregation of ever-changing data.BigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assets
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Key-value storeObject oriented DBMSDocument store
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Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score1.85
Rank#138  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score0.56
Rank#245  Overall
#10  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Websitewww.4d.comalasql.orgaws.amazon.com/­simpledbatoti.iowww.bigchaindb.com
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbdocs.atoti.iobigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latest
Developer4D, IncAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffAmazonActiveViam
Initial release1984201420072016
Current releasev20, April 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMIT-Licensecommercialcommercial infofree versions availableOpen Source infoAGPL v3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaPython
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedLinux
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnonono
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 indexesyesnoyes infoAll columns are indexed automatically
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92Close to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.noMultidimensional Expressions (MDX)no
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
JavaScript APIRESTful HTTP APICLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
JavaScript.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonoPython
Triggersyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationSharding, horizontal partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationnoneyesselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageno infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the application
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB
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 groupsnoAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)yes

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