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DBMS > 4D vs. IRONdb vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. PouchDB vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. IRONdb vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. PouchDB vs. STSdb

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft SQL Server  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityMicrosofts flagship relational DBMSJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.47
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score821.56
Rank#3  Overall
#3  Relational DBMS
Score2.34
Rank#112  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score0.10
Rank#357  Overall
#51  Key-value stores
Websitewww.4d.comwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/www.microsoft.com/­en-us/­sql-serverpouchdb.comgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedlearn.microsoft.com/­en-US/­sql/­sql-serverpouchdb.com/­guides
Developer4D, IncCirconus LLC.MicrosoftApache Software FoundationSTS Soft SC
Initial release19842017198920122011
Current releasev20, April 2023V0.10.20, January 2018SQL Server 2022, November 20227.1.1, June 20194.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercial inforestricted free version is availableOpen SourceOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC and C++C++JavaScriptC#
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyesnoyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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.yesnoyesno
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes infovia viewsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)yesnono
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
.NET Client API
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic
JavaScriptC#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes, in LuaTransact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) JavaView functions in JavaScriptno
Triggersyesnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneAutomatic, metric affinity per nodetables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federationSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareyes, but depending on the SQL-Server EditionMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnono

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