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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. AlaSQL vs. IBM Cloudant vs. OceanBase

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

JavaScript DBMS library

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

A distributed, high available RDBMS compatible with Oracle and MySQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Wide column store

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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	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	1.66
Rank	#147	Overall
	#68	Relational DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

alasql.org

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

en.oceanbase.com

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

en.oceanbase.com/docs/oceanbase-database

Developer

4D, Inc

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

OceanBase

previously Alibaba and Ant Group

Initial release

1984

2014

2010

Current release

v20, April 2023

4.3.0, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open Source

Commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

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

hosted

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

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

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

JavaScript API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Proprietary native API
Table API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

JavaScript

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

Ada

in MySQL-compatible model
C

in Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
C++

in Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
D

in MySQL-compatible model
Delphi

in MySQL-compatible model
Eiffel

in MySQL-compatible model
Erlang

in MySQL-compatible model
Haskell

in MySQL-compatible model
Java

in Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
JavaScript (Node.js)

in MySQL-compatible model
Objective-C

in MySQL-compatible model
OCaml

in MySQL-compatible model
Perl

in MySQL-compatible model
PHP

in MySQL-compatible model
Python

in MySQL-compatible model
Ruby

in MySQL-compatible model
Scheme

in MySQL-compatible model
Tcl

in MySQL-compatible model

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

PL/SQL in oracle-compatible mode, MySQL Stored Procedure in mysql-compatible mode

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by hash, key, range, range columns, list, and list columns)

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication using Paxos

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Eventual Consistency

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

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

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 rights for users can be defined per database

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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