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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. AlaSQL vs. Datomic vs. Oracle Coherence

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

JavaScript DBMS library

Datomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durability

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

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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	1.59
Rank	#150	Overall
	#69	Relational DBMS

Score	1.92
Rank	#130	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Website

www.4d.com

alasql.org

www.datomic.com

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.datomic.com

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

Developer

4D, Inc

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Cognitect

Oracle

Initial release

1984

2014

2012

2007

Current release

v20, April 2023

1.0.6735, June 2023

14.1, August 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

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, Clojure

Java

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

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

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

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

RESTful HTTP API

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

JavaScript

Clojure
Java

.Net
C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

Triggers

yes

By using transaction functions

yes

Live Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

yes, with selectable consistency level

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

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

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

ACID

configurable

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

using external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)

yes

optionally

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

recommended only for testing and development

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

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