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DBMS > 4D vs. AlaSQL vs. ClickHouse vs. H2 vs. NuoDB

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. AlaSQL vs. ClickHouse vs. H2 vs. NuoDB

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonClickHouse  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonNuoDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemJavaScript DBMS libraryA high-performance, column-oriented SQL DBMS for online analytical processing (OLAP) that uses all available system resources to their full potential to process each analytical query as fast as possible. It is available as both an open-source software and a cloud offering.Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMS
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Score2.80
Rank#111  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Score0.53
Rank#258  Overall
#40  Document stores
#119  Relational DBMS
Score16.31
Rank#37  Overall
#23  Relational DBMS
Score8.14
Rank#50  Overall
#32  Relational DBMS
Score0.94
Rank#207  Overall
#96  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comalasql.orgclickhouse.comwww.h2database.comwww.3ds.com/­nuodb-distributed-sql-database
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlclickhouse.com/­docswww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmldoc.nuodb.com
Developer4D, IncAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffClickhouse Inc.Thomas MuellerDassault Systèmes infooriginally NuoDB, Inc.
Initial release19842014201620052013
Current releasev20, April 2023v23.12.1.1368-stable, December 20232.2.220, July 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)commercial infolimited edition free
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC++JavaC++
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
All OS with a Java VMhosted infoAmazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesyes
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 indexesyesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92Close to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)yesyes
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
JavaScript APIgRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MySQL wire protocol
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Proprietary protocol
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
JavaScriptC# info3rd party library
C++
Elixir info3rd party library
Go info3rd party library
Java info3rd party library
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party library
Kotlin info3rd party library
Nim info3rd party library
Perl info3rd party library
PHP info3rd party library
Python info3rd party library
R info3rd party library
Ruby info3rd party library
Rust
Scala info3rd party library
Java.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyesJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined FunctionsJava, SQL
Triggersyesyesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonekey based and customnonedata is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationnoneAsynchronous and synchronous physical replication; geographically distributed replicas; support for object storages.With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseyes infoManaged transparently by NuoDB
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenoACIDACID infotunable commit protocol
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes infoMVCC
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesyesyes infoTemporary table
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsnoAccess rights for users and roles. Column and row based policies. Quotas and resource limits. Pluggable authentication with LDAP and Kerberos. Password based, X.509 certificate, and SSH key authentication.fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardStandard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

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