DBMS > 4D vs. AlaSQL vs. Datastax Enterprise vs. LokiJS vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. AlaSQL vs. Datastax Enterprise vs. LokiJS vs. TerminusDB

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

JavaScript DBMS library

DataStax Enterprise (DSE) is the always-on, scalable data platform built on Apache Cassandra and designed for hybrid Cloud. DSE integrates graph, search, analytics, administration, developer tooling, and monitoring into a unified platform.

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Document store

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Vector DBMS

Document store
RDF store

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Score	2.37
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.42
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores
	#122	Relational DBMS

Score	4.82
Rank	#65	Overall
	#4	Wide column stores

Score	0.44
Rank	#256	Overall
	#40	Document stores

Score	0.19
Rank	#311	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

alasql.org

www.datastax.com/products/datastax-enterprise

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.datastax.com

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

4D, Inc

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

DataStax

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

1984

2014

2011

2014

2018

Current release

v20, April 2023

6.8, April 2020

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

JavaScript

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

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

Linux
OS X

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

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

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

SQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL); Spark SQL

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

JavaScript API

Proprietary protocol

CQL (Cassandra Query Language)
TinkerPop Gremlin

with DSE Graph

JavaScript API

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

JavaScript

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

JavaScript

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

View functions in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

none

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

none

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware, advanced replication for edge computing

none

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency

consistency level can be individually decided with each write operation

none

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

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

atomic operations within a single collection possible

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

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

yes

in-memory journaling

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

Access rights for users can be defined per object

Role-based access control

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

Capital One, Cisco, Comcast, eBay, McDonald's, Microsoft, Safeway, Sony, UBS, and...
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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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