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DBMS > 4D vs. AlaSQL vs. Apache Pinot vs. Faircom EDGE vs. LokiJS

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. AlaSQL vs. Apache Pinot vs. Faircom EDGE vs. LokiJS

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonApache Pinot  Xexclude from comparisonFaircom EDGE infoformerly c-treeEDGE  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemJavaScript DBMS libraryRealtime distributed OLAP datastore, designed to answer OLAP queries with low latencyFairCom EDGE is an Industry 4.0 solution built to integrate, collect, aggregate and synchronize mission-critical data in edge computing environmentsIn-memory JavaScript DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Document store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.47
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score0.38
Rank#275  Overall
#126  Relational DBMS
Score0.09
Rank#362  Overall
#53  Key-value stores
#155  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Websitewww.4d.comalasql.orgpinot.apache.orgwww.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-edgegithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJS
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.pinot.apache.orgdocs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-23d4f1fd-d213-f6d5-b92e-9b7475baa14e.htmltechfort.github.io/­LokiJS
Developer4D, IncAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffApache Software Foundation and contributorsFairCom Corporation
Initial release19842014201519792014
Current releasev20, April 20231.0.0, September 2023V3, October 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infoRestricted, free version availableOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaANSI C, C++JavaScript
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)All OS with a Java JDK11 or higherAndroid
Linux infoARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)schema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesno
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.yesnoyesno
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92Close to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.SQL-like query languageyes infoANSI SQL queriesno
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
JavaScript APIJDBCADO.NET
Direct SQL
IoT Microservice layer
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JavaScript API
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
JavaScriptGo
Java
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
VB.Net
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyes info.Net, JavaScript, C/C++View functions in JavaScript
Triggersyesyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonehorizontal partitioningFile partitioning infoCustomizable business rules for partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationnoneyes infoSynchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logsnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency
none
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyes infowhen using SQLno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDno infoatomic operations within a single collection possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoacross SQL and NoSQL
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsnoFine grained user, group and file access rights managed across SQL (per ANSI standard) and NoSQL.no

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