DBMS > 4D vs. AlaSQL vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. BaseX vs. HugeGraph

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. AlaSQL vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. BaseX vs. HugeGraph

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Name

This system has been discontinued and will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

JavaScript DBMS library

Highly scalable database system, designed for managing session and subscriber data in modern mobile communication networks

Light-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.

A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Native XML DBMS

Graph DBMS

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Score	2.58
Rank	#108	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.46
Rank	#260	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#121	Relational DBMS

Score	1.73
Rank	#142	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#336	Overall
	#32	Graph DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

alasql.org

atos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repository

basex.org

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.basex.org

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

Developer

4D, Inc

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Atos Convergence Creators

BaseX GmbH

Baidu

Initial release

1984

2014

2016

2007

2018

Current release

v20, April 2023

1703

10.7, August 2023

0.9

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

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

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS
Unix

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

XQuery supports types

yes

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

also supports composite index and range index

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

LDAP

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

JavaScript

All languages with LDAP bindings

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

Groovy
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

Triggers

yes

via events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

cell division

none

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

none

yes

none

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

via hugegraph-spark

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

edges in graph

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

Atomic execution of specific operations

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

LDAP bind authentication

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

Users, roles and permissions

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