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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Lovefield vs. SpatiaLite vs. Typesense

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Spatial extension of SQLite

A typo-tolerant, in-memory search engine optimized for instant search-as-you-type experiences and developer productivity

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	2.47
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.33
Rank	#286	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Score	1.63
Rank	#146	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.76
Rank	#219	Overall
	#14	Search engines

Website

www.4d.com

google.github.io/lovefield

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

typesense.org

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

typesense.org/docs

Developer

4D, Inc

Google

Alessandro Furieri

Initial release

1984

2014

2008

2015

Current release

v20, April 2023

2.1.12, February 2017

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

server-less

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

pre-defined schema optional

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

yes

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

JavaScript

.Net

community maintained
Clojure

community maintained
Dart

community maintained
Go

community maintained
Java

community maintained
JavaScript
Perl

community maintained
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust

community maintained
Swift

community maintained

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Using read-only observers

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

Multi-source replication using RAFT

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

using MemoryDB

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

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