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DBMS > 4D vs. Altibase vs. ObjectBox vs. TimesTen vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Altibase vs. ObjectBox vs. TimesTen vs. Trafodion

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonTimesTen  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSLightweight, fast on-device database for IoT, Mobile and Embedded devices, persisting and synchronising objects and vectorsAn in-memory SQL relational database that delivers microsecond response and high throughput for OLTP applications. TimesTen can be deployed as a standalone database or as a cache to a backend Oracle database.Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSObject oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.37
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.87
Rank#200  Overall
#93  Relational DBMS
Score1.08
Rank#179  Overall
#6  Object oriented DBMS
#9  Vector DBMS
Score1.26
Rank#164  Overall
#75  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comaltibase.comgithub.com/­objectbox
objectbox.io
www.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­timesten.htmltrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsdocs.objectbox.iodocs.oracle.com/­en/­database/­other-databases/­timesten/­index.htmltrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
Developer4D, IncAltibaseObjectBox LimitedOracle infooriginally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release19841999201719982014
Current releasev20, April 2023v7.3, 2023, August 20234.0 (May 2024)Release 22.12.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Bindings are released under Apache 2.0 infoApache License 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C and C++C++, Java
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Android
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows
IBM AIX Power PC 64-bit
Linux arm64
Linux x86-64
Solaris SPARC 64
Solaris SPARC/x86
Solaris x86-64
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes, plus "flex" map-like typesyesyes
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.yesnononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92ANSI SQL-92noyesyes
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Proprietary native APIODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Pro*C/C++ programming interfaces
SQL and PL/SQL via JDBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
C
C++
Java
C
C++
Dart (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift
C
C++
Java
Node.js
PL/SQL
Python
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesstored procedures and stored functionsnoPL/SQLJava Stored Procedures
Triggersyesyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyesData sync between devices allowing occasional connected databases to work completely offlineMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoby means of logfiles and checkpointsyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
More information provided by the system vendor
4D infoformer name: 4th DimensionAltibaseObjectBoxTimesTenTrafodion
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