DBMS > 4D vs. Amazon CloudSearch vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. InfinityDB vs. LokiJS

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Amazon CloudSearch vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. InfinityDB vs. LokiJS

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Name

This system has been discontinued and will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

A hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloud

Highly scalable database system, designed for managing session and subscriber data in modern mobile communication networks

A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Document store
Key-value store

Key-value store

Document store

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Score	2.37
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	1.86
Rank	#133	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores

Score	0.44
Rank	#256	Overall
	#40	Document stores

Website

www.4d.com

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

atos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repository

boilerbay.com

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

Developer

4D, Inc

Amazon

Atos Convergence Creators

Boiler Bay Inc.

Initial release

1984

2012

2016

2002

2014

Current release

v20, April 2023

1703

4.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

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

Data scheme

yes

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

yes

nested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical â€˜tuple spaceâ€™ runtime Schema upgrade

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

yes

all Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays

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

all search fields are automatically indexed

yes

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

HTTP API

LDAP

Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/docs/ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

All languages with LDAP bindings

Java

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

Sharding

cell division

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

managed transparently by AWS

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

READ-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic execution of specific operations

ACID

Optimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads

atomic operations within a single collection possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

authentication via encrypted signatures

LDAP bind authentication

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