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DBMS > 4D vs. AlaSQL vs. Faircom EDGE vs. HBase vs. LokiJS

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. AlaSQL vs. Faircom EDGE vs. HBase vs. LokiJS

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonFaircom EDGE infoformerly c-treeEDGE  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemJavaScript DBMS libraryFairCom EDGE is an Industry 4.0 solution built to integrate, collect, aggregate and synchronize mission-critical data in edge computing environmentsWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableIn-memory JavaScript DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Wide column storeDocument store
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Score2.47
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score0.09
Rank#362  Overall
#53  Key-value stores
#155  Relational DBMS
Score27.97
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Websitewww.4d.comalasql.orgwww.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-edgehbase.apache.orggithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJS
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-23d4f1fd-d213-f6d5-b92e-9b7475baa14e.htmlhbase.apache.org/­book.htmltechfort.github.io/­LokiJS
Developer4D, IncAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffFairCom CorporationApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset
Initial release19842014197920082014
Current releasev20, April 2023V3, October 20202.3.4, January 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMIT-Licensecommercial infoRestricted, free version availableOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptANSI C, C++JavaJavaScript
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Android
Linux infoARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows
Linux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyesschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)schema-free, schema definition possibleschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesoptions to bring your own types, AVROno
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.yesnoyesnono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesnoyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92Close to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.yes infoANSI SQL queriesnono
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
JavaScript APIADO.NET
Direct SQL
IoT Microservice layer
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
JavaScript API
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
JavaScriptC
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
VB.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyes info.Net, JavaScript, C/C++yes infoCoprocessors in JavaView functions in JavaScript
Triggersyesyesyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneFile partitioning infoCustomizable business rules for partitioningShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationnoneyes infoSynchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logsMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyes infowhen using SQLnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)no infoatomic operations within a single collection possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoacross SQL and NoSQLyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsnoFine grained user, group and file access rights managed across SQL (per ANSI standard) and NoSQL.Access Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACno

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