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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Drizzle vs. LokiJS vs. TerminusDB

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Name

Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

MySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

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Score	2.47
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#260	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	0.23
Rank	#316	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

4D, Inc

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

1984

2008

2014

2018

Current release

v20, April 2023

7.2.4, September 2012

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GNU GPL

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

JavaScript

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

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

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

JDBC

JavaScript API

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

C
C++
Java
PHP

JavaScript

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

View functions in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

atomic operations within a single collection possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

yes

in-memory journaling

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

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

Role-based access control

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