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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. AlaSQL vs. jBASE vs. TinkerGraph vs. YTsaurus

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

JavaScript DBMS library

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

A lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API

YTsaurus is an open source platform for distributed storage and processing.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Graph DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

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Score	2.47
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

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

Score	1.49
Rank	#156	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#345	Overall
	#35	Graph DBMS

Score	0.21
Rank	#324	Overall
	#45	Document stores
	#48	Key-value stores

Website

www.4d.com

alasql.org

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

tinkerpop.apache.org/docs/current/reference/#tinkergraph-gremlin

ytsaurus.tech

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

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

ytsaurus.tech/docs/en

Developer

4D, Inc

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Yandex

Initial release

1984

2014

1991

2009

2023

Current release

v20, April 2023

5.7

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

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

AIX
Linux
Windows

Ubuntu

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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.

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

YQL, an SQL-based language, is supported

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

JavaScript

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

Groovy
Java

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

none

yes

none

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships 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

optional

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 can be defined down to the item level

Access Control Lists

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