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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. AlaSQL vs. OrientDB vs. PieCloudDB

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

JavaScript DBMS library

Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)

A cloud-native analytic database platform with new technologoy for elastic MPP

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	2.47
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

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

Score	3.25
Rank	#89	Overall
	#16	Document stores
	#6	Graph DBMS
	#13	Key-value stores

Score	0.32
Rank	#289	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

www.orientdb.com/docs/last/index.html

Developer

4D, Inc

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP

OpenPie

Initial release

1984

2014

2010

Current release

v20, April 2023

3.2.29, March 2024

2.1, January 2023

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

yes

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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)

All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Schema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")

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.

SQL-like query language, no joins

yes

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

JavaScript API

Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

JavaScript

.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Java
PL/SQL
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java, Javascript

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

none

Multi-source replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

could be achieved with distributed queries

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationship in graphs

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

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 rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

User Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL Standard

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Specific characteristics

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