DBMS > 4D vs. Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. ObjectBox vs. UniData,UniVerse

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. ObjectBox vs. UniData,UniVerse

Please select another system to include it in the comparison.

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines

Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

A fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time access

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

MultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilities

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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

Score	2.58
Rank	#108	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.26
Rank	#301	Overall
	#12	Wide column stores

Score	1.20
Rank	#170	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	3.16
Rank	#97	Overall
	#2	Multivalue DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

objectbox.io

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-unidata

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

docs.objectbox.io

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidata

Developer

4D, Inc

Alibaba

ObjectBox Limited

Rocket Software

Initial release

1984

2016

2017

1985

Current release

v20, April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.

Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

hosted

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

HTTP API

Proprietary native API

Java API

JPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

Java
Python

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

.Net
Basic

U2 Basic
C
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

U2 Basic

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

online/offline synchronization between client and server

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic single-row operations

ACID

configurable

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

Access rights based on subaccounts and tokens

yes

Access rights according to SQL-standard and operating system based

More information provided by the system vendor

News

Evolution of search: traditional vs vector search
23 May 2024

On-device Vector Database for Dart/Flutter
21 May 2024

The first On-Device Vector Database: ObjectBox 4.0
16 May 2024

SQLite and SQLite alternatives – a comprehensive overview
7 May 2024

Edge AI: The era of on-device AI
23 April 2024

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.

Related products and services

We invite representatives of vendors of related products to contact us for presenting information about their offerings here.

More resources

DB-Engines blog posts

MySQL, PostgreSQL and Redis are the winners of the March ranking
2 March 2016, Paul Andlinger

show all

Recent citations in the news

Apache Software Foundation Announces New Top-Level Project Apache Paimon
16 April 2024, Datanami

Top data analytics tools comparison: Alibaba Cloud, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, IBM
5 December 2019, Wire19

Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Cloud Database Management Systems
9 December 2020, CRN

25 Best Cloud Service Providers (Public and Private) in 2024
4 June 2023, CybersecurityNews

Apache Software Foundation Announces New Top-Level Project Apache Paimon
19 April 2024, Datanami

provided by Google News

Industrial IoT (IIoT) edge solution for railway operators – a Kapsch ObjectBox Case Study
21 June 2019, 1E9

The Megashift Towards Decentralized Edge Computing
27 August 2021, hackernoon.com

provided by Google News

Pinning Down Unidata S.p.A.'s (BIT:UD) P/E Is Difficult Right Now
21 May 2024, Simply Wall St

Unidata Reports Full Year 2023 Earnings
31 March 2024, Simply Wall St

Unidata uses Jetstream to make geoscience data available to science community
29 January 2020, IU Newsroom

UniData implements a milestone Smart Class Room project at The Asian School | THE DAILY TRIBUNE | KINGDOM ...
8 April 2024, News of Bahrain- DT News

Data + software services
21 August 2018, UCAR

provided by Google News

Share this page