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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. LokiJS vs. OpenEdge vs. Postgres-XL vs. TigerGraph

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

A complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	2.68
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.48
Rank	#262	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	3.75
Rank	#88	Overall
	#47	Relational DBMS

Score	0.52
Rank	#256	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	1.83
Rank	#141	Overall
	#13	Graph DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

www.progress.com/openedge

www.postgres-xl.org

www.tigergraph.com

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

docs.tigergraph.com

Developer

4D, Inc

Progress Software Corporation

Initial release

1984

2014

1984

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2017

Current release

v20, April 2023

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

10 R1, October 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla public license

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

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

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS

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

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

SQL-like query language (GSQL)

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

JavaScript

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

View functions in JavaScript

yes

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

atomic operations within a single collection possible

ACID

MVCC

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 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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role-based access control

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LokiJS - A JavaScript Database
18 November 2014, iProgrammer

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20 June 2023, SiliconANGLE News

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1 November 2023, Datanami

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