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DBMS > 4D vs. Datomic vs. EJDB vs. Lovefield vs. PlanetScale

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Datomic vs. EJDB vs. Lovefield vs. PlanetScale

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonPlanetScale  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityEmbeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptScalable, distributed, serverless MySQL database platform built on top of Vitess
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score2.47
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score1.66
Rank#144  Overall
#66  Relational DBMS
Score0.31
Rank#296  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score0.33
Rank#286  Overall
#131  Relational DBMS
Score1.49
Rank#155  Overall
#72  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comwww.datomic.comgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbgoogle.github.io/­lovefieldplanetscale.com
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comdocs.datomic.comgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mdgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mdplanetscale.com/­docs
Developer4D, IncCognitectSoftmotionsGooglePlanetScale
Initial release19842012201220142020
Current releasev20, April 20231.0.7075, December 20232.1.12, February 2017
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoGPLv2Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
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Implementation languageJava, ClojureCJavaScriptGo
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMserver-lessserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariDocker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idyesyes
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.yesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92nonoSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternyes infowith proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
RESTful HTTP APIin-process shared libraryADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
Clojure
Java
Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
JavaScriptAda
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infoTransaction Functionsnonoyes infoproprietary syntax
TriggersyesBy using transaction functionsnoUsing read-only observersyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersnonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersnonenoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possibleyesyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACIDACID at shard level
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoRead/Write Lockingyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engine
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes inforecommended only for testing and developmentyes infousing MemoryDByes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsnononoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles

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