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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. InfinityDB vs. RethinkDB vs. SQL.JS

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface

DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

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

Score	2.58
Rank	#108	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#378	Overall
	#57	Key-value stores

Score	2.74
Rank	#105	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	0.53
Rank	#252	Overall
	#116	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

rethinkdb.com/docs

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

Developer

4D, Inc

Boiler Bay Inc.

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Initial release

1984

2002

2009

2012

Current release

v20, April 2023

4.0

2.4.1, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

no

no

no

no

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Implementation language

Java

C++

JavaScript

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Windows

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

Data scheme

yes

yes

nested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical â€˜tuple spaceâ€™ runtime Schema upgrade

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes

all Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

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

no

Secondary indexes

yes

no

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

no

no

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/docs/ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

Java

C

community-supported driver
C#

community-supported driver
C++

community-supported driver
Clojure

community-supported driver
Dart

community-supported driver
Erlang

community-supported driver
Go

community-supported driver
Haskell

community-supported driver
Java

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js)

official driver
Lisp

community-supported driver
Lua

community-supported driver
Objective-C

community-supported driver
Perl

community-supported driver
PHP

community-supported driver
Python

official driver
Ruby

official driver
Scala

community-supported driver

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

no

no

Triggers

yes

no

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

no

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

none

Sharding

range based

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

none

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

no

no

yes

no

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

READ-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

no

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

no

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

ACID

Optimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads

Atomic single-document operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes

yes

MVCC based

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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

no

no

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

no

yes

users and table-level permissions

no

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