DBMS > 4D vs. RocksDB vs. SQL.JS vs. Teradata Aster vs. WakandaDB

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. RocksDB vs. SQL.JS vs. Teradata Aster vs. WakandaDB

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Name

Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Platform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	2.47
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.63
Rank	#241	Overall
	#112	Relational DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#356	Overall
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

4D, Inc

Facebook, Inc.

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Teradata

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

1984

2013

2012

2005

2012

Current release

v20, April 2023

9.2.1, May 2024

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

JavaScript

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux

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

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

defined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store

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

in Aster File Store

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

yes

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

C++ API
Java API

JavaScript API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

JavaScript

C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

R packages

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

none

yes

Dimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

SQL Map-Reduce Framework

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

except by serializing a db to a file

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

yes

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