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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Apache Kylin vs. SQL.JS vs. ToroDB vs. Transwarp Hippo

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Name

ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

A distributed analytics engine for big data, providing a SQL interface and multi-dimensional analysis (OLAP) and leveraging the Hadoop stack

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

Cloud-native distributed Vector DBMS that supports storage, retrieval, and management of massive vector-based datasets

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Vector DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	2.58
Rank	#108	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	1.18
Rank	#172	Overall
	#79	Relational DBMS

Score	0.53
Rank	#252	Overall
	#116	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#13	Vector DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

kylin.apache.org

sql.js.org

github.com/torodb/server

www.transwarp.cn/en/subproduct/hippo

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

kylin.apache.org/docs

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

Developer

4D, Inc

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay Inc

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

8Kdata

Initial release

1984

2015

2012

2016

2023

Current release

v20, April 2023

3.1.0, July 2020

1.0, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

AGPL-V3

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

Java

C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux

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

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

Vector, Numeric and String

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JavaScript API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

JavaScript

C++
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

except by serializing a db to a file

yes

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

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

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