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DBMS > 4D vs. Blueflood vs. Derby vs. LokiJS vs. Riak KV

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Blueflood vs. Derby vs. LokiJS vs. Riak KV

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonDerby infooften called Apache Derby, originally IBM Cloudscape; contained in the Java SDK as JavaDB  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.In-memory JavaScript DBMSDistributed, fault tolerant key-value store
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes
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Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#353  Overall
#34  Time Series DBMS
Score4.71
Rank#69  Overall
#37  Relational DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score4.10
Rank#82  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Websitewww.4d.comblueflood.iodb.apache.org/­derbygithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJS
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikidb.apache.org/­derby/­manuals/­index.htmltechfort.github.io/­LokiJSwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latest
Developer4D, IncRackspaceApache Software FoundationOpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies
Initial release19842013199720142009
Current releasev20, April 202310.17.1.0, November 20233.2.0, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise edition
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJavaScriptErlang
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
All OS with a Java VMserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Data schemeyespredefined schemeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnono
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.yesnoyesnono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes infovia viewsrestricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92noyesnono
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
HTTP RESTJDBCJavaScript APIHTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
JavaJavaScriptC infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoJava Stored ProceduresView functions in JavaScriptErlang
Triggersyesnoyesyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infobased on CassandranonenoneSharding infono "single point of failure"
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraSource-replica replicationnoneselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnono infolinks between data sets can be stored
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDno infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoyes, using Riak Security

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