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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. AlaSQL vs. H2 vs. Interbase vs. OushuDB

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

JavaScript DBMS library

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

A data warehouse powered by Apache HAWQ supporting descriptive analysis and advanced machine learning

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	2.47
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.51
Rank	#256	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#118	Relational DBMS

Score	8.33
Rank	#46	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Score	4.08
Rank	#75	Overall
	#41	Relational DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#355	Overall
	#154	Relational DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

alasql.org

www.h2database.com

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

www.oushu.com/product/oushuDB

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

www.oushu.com/documentation

Developer

4D, Inc

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Thomas Mueller

Embarcadero

Oushu

Initial release

1984

2014

2005

1984

Current release

v20, April 2023

2.2.220, July 2023

InterBase 2020, December 2019

4.0.1, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

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

All OS with a Java VM

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

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

export as XML data possible

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.

yes

Full-featured ANSI SQL support

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

JavaScript

Java

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby

C
C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

none

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

Interbase Change Views

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Kerberos, SSL and role based access

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