DBMS > 4D vs. AlaSQL vs. Ignite vs. jBASE vs. LokiJS

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. AlaSQL vs. Ignite vs. jBASE vs. LokiJS

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

JavaScript DBMS library

Apache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Document store

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	2.47
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

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

Score	3.11
Rank	#96	Overall
	#15	Key-value stores
	#49	Relational DBMS

Score	1.49
Rank	#156	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#260	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Website

www.4d.com

alasql.org

ignite.apache.org

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

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

apacheignite.readme.io/docs

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

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

Developer

4D, Inc

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Apache Software Foundation

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Initial release

1984

2014

2015

1991

2014

Current release

v20, April 2023

Apache Ignite 2.6

5.7

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++, Java, .Net

JavaScript

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

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

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

AIX
Linux
Windows

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

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

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.

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

JavaScript API

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

JavaScript

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

yes

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

none

yes (replicated cache)

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

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

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.

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

Security Hooks for custom implementations

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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