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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. AlaSQL vs. Apache Jena - TDB vs. IBM Cloudant vs. SiriDB

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

JavaScript DBMS library

A RDF storage and query DBMS, shipped as an optional-use component of the Apache Jena framework

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Open Source Time Series DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

RDF store

Document store

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	2.47
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.51
Rank	#256	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#118	Relational DBMS

Score	3.62
Rank	#83	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	0.07
Rank	#378	Overall
	#42	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

alasql.org

jena.apache.org/documentation/tdb/index.html

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

siridb.com

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

jena.apache.org/documentation/tdb/index.html

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

docs.siridb.com

Developer

4D, Inc

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Cesbit

Initial release

1984

2014

2000

2010

2017

Current release

v20, April 2023

4.9.0, July 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

Erlang

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

RDF Schemas

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data

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

Close to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

JavaScript API

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

JavaScript

Java

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

via event handler

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

ACID

TDB Transactions

atomic operations within a document possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

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

Access control via Jena Security

Access rights for users can be defined per database

simple rights management via user accounts

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