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DBMS > 4D vs. AlaSQL vs. BoltDB vs. Heroic vs. Oracle Coherence

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. AlaSQL vs. BoltDB vs. Heroic vs. Oracle Coherence

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Coherence  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemJavaScript DBMS libraryAn embedded key-value store for Go.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchOracles in-memory data grid solution
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Key-value storeTime Series DBMSKey-value store
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Score2.47
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score0.80
Rank#215  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score1.97
Rank#129  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Websitewww.4d.comalasql.orggithub.com/­boltdb/­boltgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.oracle.com/­java/­coherence
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlspotify.github.io/­heroicdocs.oracle.com/­en/­middleware/­standalone/­coherence
Developer4D, IncAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffSpotifyOracle
Initial release19842014201320142007
Current releasev20, April 202314.1, August 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptGoJavaJava
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VM
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnonoyesyes
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.yesnononono
Secondary indexesyesnonoyes infovia Elasticsearchno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92Close to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.nonono
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
JavaScript APIHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
JavaScriptGo.Net
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnononono
Triggersyesyesnonoyes infoLive Events
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationnonenoneyesyes, with selectable consistency level
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynonenoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageyesnoconfigurable
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyes infooptionally
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsnonoauthentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

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