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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. AlaSQL vs. HBase vs. jBASE

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

JavaScript DBMS library

Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Multivalue DBMS

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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	30.50
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	1.41
Rank	#159	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

alasql.org

hbase.apache.org

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

hbase.apache.org/book.html

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

Developer

4D, Inc

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Initial release

1984

2014

2008

1991

Current release

v20, April 2023

2.3.4, January 2021

5.7

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

Apache version 2

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

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

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

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

AIX
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

schema-free, schema definition possible

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

options to bring your own types, AVRO

optional

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.

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

JavaScript API

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

JavaScript

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Coprocessors in Java

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency or Eventual 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

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

Access Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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