Featured Products: Milvus RaimaDB SingleStore Neo4j Datastax Astra

DBMS > 4D vs. Elasticsearch vs. SQL.JS

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Elasticsearch vs. SQL.JS

Please select another system to include it in the comparison.

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines

Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

A distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene

Elasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metric

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS

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

Score	2.37
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	128.79
Rank	#8	Overall
	#1	Search engines

Score	0.53
Rank	#246	Overall
	#115	Relational DBMS

Website

www.elastic.co/elasticsearch

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/index.html

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

Developer

4D, Inc

Elastic

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Initial release

1984

2010

2012

Current release

v20, April 2023

8.6, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Elastic License

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

no

no

no

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.

Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

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

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes

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

no

no

Secondary indexes

yes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

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

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

yes

no

Triggers

yes

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

no

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

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

no

ES-Hadoop Connector

no

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

no

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

no

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes

no

except by serializing a db to a file

In-memory capabilities

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

no

Memcached and Redis integration

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

no

More information provided by the system vendor

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.

Related products and services

We invite representatives of vendors of related products to contact us for presenting information about their offerings here.

More resources

DB-Engines blog posts

MySQL, PostgreSQL and Redis are the winners of the March ranking
2 March 2016, Paul Andlinger

PostgreSQL is the DBMS of the Year 2017
2 January 2018, Paul Andlinger, Matthias Gelbmann

Elasticsearch moved into the top 10 most popular database management systems
3 July 2017, Matthias Gelbmann

MySQL, PostgreSQL and Redis are the winners of the March ranking
2 March 2016, Paul Andlinger

New kids on the block: database management systems implemented in JavaScript
1 December 2014, Matthias Gelbmann

Recent citations in the news

Unsecured Elasticsearch cluster exposes over 3M vehicle records
18 September 2024, SC Media

Elasticsearch will be open source again as CTO declares changed landscape
2 September 2024, DevClass

The Elasticsearch cloud now subject to open-source licence
3 September 2024, TechHQ

Elasticsearch Open Inference API Extends Support for Hugging Face Models with Semantic Text
12 September 2024, Yahoo Finance

Elastic Announces Open Source License for Elasticsearch and Kibana Source Code
29 August 2024, Business Wire

provided by Google News

9 Best JavaScript and TypeScript ORMs for 2024
22 March 2023, SitePoint

SQLite On The Web: Absurd-sql
24 August 2021, Hackaday

Running PostgreSQL Inside Your Browser
8 September 2022, iProgrammer

React Native for beginners
31 October 2018, hackernoon.com

10 Low-Code Rules for Serious Coders
21 November 2022, Embedded Computing Design

provided by Google News

Share this page

Featured Products

Present your product here