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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Apache Drill vs. IRONdb vs. LokiJS

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Name

IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded 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

A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Document store

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Score	2.37
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	1.90
Rank	#126	Overall
	#23	Document stores
	#60	Relational DBMS

Score	0.44
Rank	#256	Overall
	#40	Document stores

Website

www.4d.com

drill.apache.org

www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

drill.apache.org/docs

docs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

Developer

4D, Inc

Apache Software Foundation

Circonus LLC.

Initial release

1984

2012

2017

2014

Current release

v20, April 2023

1.20.3, January 2023

V0.10.20, January 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

JavaScript

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

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

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

text, numeric, histograms

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

SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

C++

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

yes, in Lua

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Automatic, metric affinity per node

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

none

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 per node, eventual consistency across nodes

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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.

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

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