DBMS > 4D vs. DataFS vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. SQL.JS vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. DataFS vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. SQL.JS vs. STSdb

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

All data is stored inside objects which are linked by so-called link attributes. Objects consist of classes which can be extended and de-extended at runtime. Graphs can be defined with a struct.

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	2.47
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.09
Rank	#360	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Score	27.71
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	0.63
Rank	#241	Overall
	#112	Relational DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#357	Overall
	#51	Key-value stores

Website

www.4d.com

newdatabase.com

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

sql.js.org

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

dev.mobiland.com/Overview.xsp

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

Developer

4D, Inc

Mobiland AG

Microsoft

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

STS Soft SC

Initial release

1984

2018

2014

2012

2011

Current release

v20, April 2023

1.1.263, October 2022

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Windows

hosted

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

Windows

Data scheme

yes

Classes, Structs, and Lists are written in proprietary DataTypeDefinitionLanguage (.dtdl) and Objects consisting of those are written in proprietary DataAccessDefinitionLanguage (.dadl)

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

All properties auto-indexed by default

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

.NET Client API
Proprietary client DLL
WinRT client

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

JavaScript API

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

.Net
C
C#
C++
VB.Net

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

JavaScript

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

no, except callback-events from server when changes happened

JavaScript

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Proprietary Sharding system

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

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

Windows-Profile

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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