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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. LokiJS vs. YottaDB

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

A fast and solid embedded Key-value store

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

using the Octo plugin

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Score	2.58
Rank	#108	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.43
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	0.20
Rank	#317	Overall
	#47	Key-value stores

Website

www.4d.com

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

yottadb.com

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

yottadb.com/resources/documentation

Developer

4D, Inc

YottaDB, LLC

Initial release

1984

2014

2001

Current release

v20, April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPL 3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

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

Docker
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

by using the Octo plugin

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

JavaScript API

PostgreSQL wire protocol

using the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

JavaScript

C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate 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

optimistic locking

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

Users and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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