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

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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

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	2.68
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#259	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#120	Relational DBMS

Score	1.72
Rank	#148	Overall
	#68	Relational DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

alasql.org

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

www.monetdb.org

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

Developer

4D, Inc

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Atos Convergence Creators

MonetDB BV

Initial release

1984

2014

2016

2004

Current release

v20, April 2023

1703

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a 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

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

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

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

JavaScript API

LDAP

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

JavaScript

All languages with LDAP bindings

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

yes, in SQL, C, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

cell division

Sharding via remote tables

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

none

yes

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

Atomic execution of specific operations

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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