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DBMS > 4D vs. SQL.JS vs. TDSQL for MySQL vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. SQL.JS vs. TDSQL for MySQL vs. TerminusDB

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparisonTDSQL for MySQL  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemPort of SQLite to JavaScriptA high-performance distributed database management system with features such as automatic sharding, intelligent operation and maintenance, elastic scalability without downtime, and enterprise-grade security. It is highly compatible with MySQL.Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Document store
RDF store
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Score2.37
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.53
Rank#246  Overall
#115  Relational DBMS
Score0.96
Rank#192  Overall
#88  Relational DBMS
Score0.19
Rank#311  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comsql.js.orgwww.tencentcloud.com/­products/­dcdbterminusdb.com
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comsql.js.org/­documentation/­index.htmlwww.tencentcloud.com/­document/­product/­1042terminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
Developer4D, IncAlon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by othersTencentDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release1984201220132018
Current releasev20, April 202311.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaScriptProlog, Rust
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedLinux
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92yes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportedyesSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
JavaScript APIJDBC
ODBC
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
JavaScriptC
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyesyes
Triggersyesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneAutomatic shardingGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Journaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesno infoexcept by serializing a db to a fileyesyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsnoUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptRole-based access control

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