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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. HarperDB vs. searchxml vs. SQL.JS

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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

Ultra-low latency distributed database with an intuitive REST API supporting NoSQL and SQL (including joins). Deployment of functions and databases simultaneously with a consolidated node-level architecture.

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Document store

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Relational DBMS

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Score	2.68
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.55
Rank	#252	Overall
	#38	Document stores

Score	0.01
Rank	#386	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Score	0.57
Rank	#248	Overall
	#114	Relational DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

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

www.harperdb.io

www.searchxml.net/category/products

sql.js.org

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

docs.harperdb.io/docs

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

Developer

4D, Inc

Atos Convergence Creators

HarperDB

informationpartners gmbh

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Initial release

1984

2016

2017

2015

2012

Current release

v20, April 2023

1703

3.1, August 2021

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Node.js

C++

JavaScript

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X

Windows

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

Data scheme

yes

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

dynamic schema

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

yes

JSON data types

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

SQL-like data manipulation statements

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

LDAP

JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

All languages with LDAP bindings

.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Custom Functions

since release 3.1

yes

on the application server

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

cell division

A table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a cluster

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

the nodes on which a table resides can be defined

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic execution of specific operations

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, using LMDB

yes

except by serializing a db to a file

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

Access rights for users and roles

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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