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DBMS > 4D vs. AlaSQL vs. H2 vs. LevelDB vs. YDB

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. AlaSQL vs. H2 vs. LevelDB vs. YDB

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonLevelDB  Xexclude from comparisonYDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemJavaScript DBMS libraryFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.Embeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string valuesA distributed fault-tolerant database service, with high availability, scalability, immediate consistency and ACID transactions and providing an Amazon DynamoDB compatible API
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSKey-value storeDocument store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.68
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#259  Overall
#40  Document stores
#120  Relational DBMS
Score8.22
Rank#50  Overall
#32  Relational DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#107  Overall
#19  Key-value stores
Score0.34
Rank#285  Overall
#43  Document stores
#130  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comalasql.orgwww.h2database.comgithub.com/­google/­leveldbgithub.com/­ydb-platform/­ydb
ydb.tech
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlgithub.com/­google/­leveldb/­blob/­main/­doc/­index.mdydb.tech/­en/­docs
Developer4D, IncAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffThomas MuellerGoogleYandex
Initial release19842014200520112019
Current releasev20, April 20232.2.220, July 20231.23, February 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)Open Source infoBSDOpen Source infoApache 2.0; commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaC++
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)All OS with a Java VMIllumos
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesnoyes
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.yesnononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92Close to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.yesnoSQL-like query language (YQL)
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
JavaScript APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
JavaScriptJavaC++
Go
Java info3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Python info3rd party binding
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsnono
Triggersyesyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationnoneWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databasenoneActive-passive shard replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyes infowith automatic compression on writesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoAccess rights defined for Yandex Cloud users

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