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DBMS > 4D vs. AlaSQL vs. Dragonfly vs. jBASE vs. Quasardb

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. AlaSQL vs. Dragonfly vs. jBASE vs. Quasardb

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemJavaScript DBMS libraryA drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instanceA robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middlewareDistributed, high-performance timeseries database
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Key-value storeMultivalue DBMSTime Series DBMS
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Score2.47
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#261  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score1.49
Rank#156  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comalasql.orggithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
www.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbasequasar.ai
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlwww.dragonflydb.io/­docsdocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9doc.quasar.ai/­master
Developer4D, IncAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffDragonflyDB team and community contributorsRocket Software (formerly Zumasys)quasardb
Initial release19842014202319912009
Current releasev20, April 20231.0, March 20235.73.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoBSL 1.1commercialcommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC++C++
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)LinuxAIX
Linux
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freescheme-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnostrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysoptionalyes infointeger and binary
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.yesnonoyesno
Secondary indexesyesnonoyes infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92Close to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.noEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASICSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
JavaScript APIProprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
HTTP API
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
JavaScriptC
C#
C++
Clojure
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Tcl
.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoLuayesno
Triggersyesyespublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalityyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingSharding infoconsistent hashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationnoneSource-replica replicationyesSource-replica replication with selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononowith Hadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, strict serializability by the serveryesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyes infoby using LevelDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesyesyes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsnoPassword-based authenticationAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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