DBMS > 4D vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Graphite vs. InfinityDB vs. LokiJS

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Graphite vs. InfinityDB vs. LokiJS

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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

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

Data logging and graphing tool for time series data

The storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper

A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Document store

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

Score	2.47
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	4.83
Rank	#67	Overall
	#4	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#365	Overall
	#55	Key-value stores

Score	0.49
Rank	#260	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Website

www.4d.com

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

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

boilerbay.com

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

graphite.readthedocs.io

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

Developer

4D, Inc

Atos Convergence Creators

Chris Davis

Boiler Bay Inc.

Initial release

1984

2016

2006

2002

2014

Current release

v20, April 2023

1703

4.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Python

Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux
Unix

All OS with a Java VM

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

Data scheme

yes

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

yes

nested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical â€˜tuple spaceâ€™ runtime Schema upgrade

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

Numeric data only

yes

all Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays

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

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

LDAP

HTTP API
Sockets

Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/docs/ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

All languages with LDAP bindings

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

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

cell division

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

none

Immediate Consistency

READ-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic execution of specific operations

ACID

Optimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads

atomic operations within a single collection possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

locking

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

LDAP bind authentication

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