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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Dolt vs. Lovefield vs. OpenTSDB vs. SpatiaLite

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

A MySQL compatible DBMS with Git-like versioning of data and schema

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

Spatial extension of SQLite

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	2.58
Rank	#108	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.96
Rank	#193	Overall
	#90	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	1.68
Rank	#146	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.60
Rank	#149	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

github.com/dolthub/dolt
www.dolthub.com

google.github.io/lovefield

opentsdb.net

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

docs.dolthub.com

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/index.html

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

Developer

4D, Inc

DoltHub Inc

Google

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

Alessandro Furieri

Initial release

1984

2018

2014

2011

2008

Current release

v20, April 2023

2.1.12, February 2017

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

LGPL

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Linux
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

yes

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

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

yes

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

CLI Client
HTTP REST

HTTP API
Telnet API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

JavaScript

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

currently in alpha release

Triggers

yes

Using read-only observers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on HBase

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

A database can be cloned to multiple locations and be used there in isolation. Data/schema changes can be pushed/pulled explicitly between locations.

none

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

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

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

using MemoryDB

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

Only one user is configurable, and must be specified in the config file at startup

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