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DBMS > 4D vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. RDF4J vs. SQL.JS

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. RDF4J vs. SQL.JS

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon DynamoDB  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemHosted, scalable database service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.Port of SQLite to JavaScript
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
RDF storeRelational DBMS
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Score2.47
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score74.45
Rank#17  Overall
#3  Document stores
#2  Key-value stores
Score0.74
Rank#222  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score0.63
Rank#241  Overall
#112  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comaws.amazon.com/­dynamodbrdf4j.orgsql.js.org
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comdocs.aws.amazon.com/­dynamodbrdf4j.org/­documentationsql.js.org/­documentation/­index.html
Developer4D, IncAmazonSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.Alon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by others
Initial release1984201220042012
Current releasev20, April 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree tier for a limited amount of database operationsOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaScript
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
hostedLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyesschema-freeyes infoRDF Schemasyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.yesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92nonoyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
RESTful HTTP APIJava API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
JavaScript API
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
PHP
Python
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyesno
Triggersyesyes infoby integration with AWS Lambdayesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyesnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)nono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
none
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID infoACID across one or more tables within a single AWS account and regionACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usedACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellno infoexcept by serializing a db to a file
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)nono

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