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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. ArcadeDB vs. Blueflood vs. LokiJS

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Hosted simple database service by Amazon, with the data stored in the Amazon Cloud.

There is an unrelated product called SimpleDB developed by Edward Sciore

Fast and scalable multi-model DBMS, originally forked from OrientDB but most of the code has been rewritten

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Time Series DBMS

in next version

Time Series 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	1.88
Rank	#133	Overall
	#23	Key-value stores

Score	0.10
Rank	#358	Overall
	#48	Document stores
	#38	Graph DBMS
	#52	Key-value stores
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#346	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#260	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Website

www.4d.com

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

arcadedb.com

blueflood.io

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

docs.arcadedb.com

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

Developer

4D, Inc

Amazon

Arcade Data

Rackspace

Initial release

1984

2007

2021

2013

2014

Current release

v20, April 2023

September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

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

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X

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

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

predefined scheme

schema-free

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

All columns are indexed automatically

yes

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

SQL-like query language, no joins

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
MongoDB API
OpenCypher
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Redis API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
TinkerPop Gremlin

HTTP REST

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

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

Sharding must be implemented in the application

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationship in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrent data updates can be detected by the application

ACID

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

Access rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

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Recent citations in the news

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