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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. searchxml vs. SQL.JS vs. Vitess

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Scalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	2.58
Rank	#108	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#25	Search engines

Score	0.53
Rank	#252	Overall
	#116	Relational DBMS

Score	0.82
Rank	#209	Overall
	#97	Relational DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

www.searchxml.net/category/products

sql.js.org

vitess.io

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

vitess.io/docs

Developer

4D, Inc

informationpartners gmbh

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

The Linux Foundation, PlanetScale

Initial release

1984

2015

2012

2013

Current release

v20, April 2023

1.0

15.0.2, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

JavaScript

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Windows

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

Docker
Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

JavaScript API

ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

JavaScript

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

on the application server

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Eventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

ACID at shard level

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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