DBMS > 4D vs. LokiJS vs. Qdrant vs. RRDtool vs. SQLite

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. LokiJS vs. Qdrant vs. RRDtool vs. SQLite

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

A high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matching

Industry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database.

The data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

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Score	2.58
Rank	#108	Overall
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Score	0.43
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	1.16
Rank	#175	Overall
	#6	Vector DBMS

Score	1.87
Rank	#136	Overall
	#11	Time Series DBMS

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

github.com/qdrant/qdrant
qdrant.tech

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

qdrant.tech/documentation

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/doc

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

4D, Inc

Qdrant

Tobias Oetiker

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

1984

2014

2021

1999

2000

Current release

v20, April 2023

1.8.0, 2022

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPL V2 and FLOSS

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Rust

Implementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

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

Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows

HP-UX
Linux

server-less

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numbers, Strings, Geo, Boolean

Numeric data only

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

Exporting into and restoring from XML files possible

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

Keywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-text

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

JavaScript API

gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

OpenAPI 3.0

in-process shared library
Pipes

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

JavaScript

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

with librrd library
C#

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Java

with a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js)

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP

with a wrapper library
Python
Ruby

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

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

none

Collection-level replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Eventual Consistency, tunable 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

by using the rrdcached daemon

yes

via file-system locks

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

Key-based authentication

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