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DBMS > 4D vs. Blueflood vs. GeoMesa vs. LokiJS vs. Sadas Engine

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Blueflood vs. GeoMesa vs. LokiJS vs. Sadas Engine

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonSadas Engine  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.In-memory JavaScript DBMSSADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS
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Score2.68
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.09
Rank#353  Overall
#33  Time Series DBMS
Score0.81
Rank#214  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score0.48
Rank#262  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score0.03
Rank#379  Overall
#156  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comblueflood.iowww.geomesa.orggithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSwww.sadasengine.com
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikiwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmltechfort.github.io/­LokiJSwww.sadasengine.com/­en/­sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/­#documentation
Developer4D, IncRackspaceCCRi and othersSADAS s.r.l.
Initial release19842013201420142006
Current releasev20, April 20234.0.5, February 20248.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache License 2.0Open Sourcecommercial infofree trial version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScalaJavaScriptC++
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)AIX
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyespredefined schemeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes
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.yesnononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92nononoyes
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
HTTP RESTJavaScript APIJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
JavaScript.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonoView functions in JavaScriptno
Triggersyesnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infobased on Cassandradepending on storage layernonehorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandradepending on storage layernonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
depending on storage layernoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonono infoatomic operations within a single collection possible
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.nonodepending on storage layeryesyes infomanaged by 'Learn by Usage'
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsnoyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storagenoAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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