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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Derby vs. JaguarDB vs. STSdb

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Key-value store

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Trend Chart

Score	2.47
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	4.60
Rank	#70	Overall
	#38	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#381	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores
	#15	Vector DBMS

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

Website

www.4d.com

db.apache.org/derby

www.jaguardb.com

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

db.apache.org/derby/manuals/index.html

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

Developer

4D, Inc

Apache Software Foundation

DataJaguar, Inc.

STS Soft SC

Initial release

1984

1997

2015

2011

Current release

v20, April 2023

10.17.1.0, November 2023

3.3 July 2023

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

GPL V3.0

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

JDBC

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

Java

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

rights management via user accounts

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