DBMS > 4D vs. Apache Drill vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. LokiJS vs. SiteWhere

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Apache Drill vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. LokiJS vs. SiteWhere

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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

Schema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud Storage

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

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Document store

Time Series DBMS

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Score	2.58
Rank	#108	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	1.95
Rank	#127	Overall
	#23	Document stores
	#60	Relational DBMS

Score	0.43
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	0.06
Rank	#356	Overall
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

drill.apache.org

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

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

drill.apache.org/docs

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

Developer

4D, Inc

Apache Software Foundation

Atos Convergence Creators

SiteWhere

Initial release

1984

2012

2016

2014

2010

Current release

v20, April 2023

1.20.3, January 2023

1703

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

Java

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

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

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

schema-free

predefined scheme

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

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

LDAP

JavaScript API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

C++

All languages with LDAP bindings

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

cell division

none

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

none

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic execution of specific operations

atomic operations within a single collection possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

Depending on the underlying data source

LDAP bind authentication

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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