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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. AlaSQL vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. LokiJS vs. TerminusDB

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

JavaScript DBMS library

Cloud-based data warehousing service

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

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Score	2.37
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.42
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores
	#122	Relational DBMS

Score	1.26
Rank	#162	Overall
	#73	Relational DBMS

Score	0.44
Rank	#256	Overall
	#40	Document stores

Score	0.19
Rank	#311	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

alasql.org

www.ibm.com/products/db2/warehouse

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

4D, Inc

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

IBM

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

1984

2014

2018

Current release

v20, April 2023

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

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

hosted

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

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

Import/export of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

Close to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.

yes

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

JavaScript API

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

JavaScript API

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

JavaScript

Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

JavaScript

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

PL/SQL, SQL PL

View functions in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

none

yes

none

Journaling Streams

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

none

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

atomic operations within a single collection possible

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

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

yes

in-memory journaling

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

Role-based access control

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