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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. PouchDB vs. Qdrant vs. SQLite

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonQdrant  Xexclude from comparisonSQLite  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBA high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matchingWidely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeVector DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score2.28
Rank#115  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score1.16
Rank#175  Overall
#6  Vector DBMS
Score114.32
Rank#10  Overall
#7  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.4d.compouchdb.comgithub.com/­qdrant/­qdrant
qdrant.tech
www.sqlite.org
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.compouchdb.com/­guidesqdrant.tech/­documentationwww.sqlite.org/­docs.html
Developer4D, IncApache Software FoundationQdrantDwayne Richard Hipp
Initial release1984201220212000
Current releasev20, April 20237.1.1, June 20193.45.3  (15 April 2024), April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoPublic Domain
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptRustC
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows
server-less
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes infodynamic column types
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoNumbers, Strings, Geo, Booleanyes infonot rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyes infovia viewsyes infoKeywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-textyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92nonoyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API infoOpenAPI 3.0
ADO.NET infoinofficial driver
JDBC infoinofficial driver
ODBC infoinofficial driver
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
JavaScript.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
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 infoStored proceduresyesView functions in JavaScriptno
Triggersyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungeShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Collection-level replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency, tunable consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infovia file-system locks
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsnoKey-based authenticationno

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