DBMS > 4D vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. H2 vs. ITTIA vs. ObjectBox

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. H2 vs. ITTIA vs. ObjectBox

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Hosted, scalable database service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloud

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

Edge Time Series DBMS with Real-Time Stream Processing

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	2.47
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	74.45
Rank	#17	Overall
	#3	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	8.33
Rank	#46	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Score	0.44
Rank	#267	Overall
	#23	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.29
Rank	#166	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.h2database.com

www.ittia.com

objectbox.io

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

docs.objectbox.io

Developer

4D, Inc

Amazon

Thomas Mueller

ITTIA L.L.C.

ObjectBox Limited

Initial release

1984

2012

2005

2007

2017

Current release

v20, April 2023

2.2.220, July 2023

8.7

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Windows

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Fixed schema

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Float/Blob/Integer/String/Unicode/Date/Time/Timestamp/Interval

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

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java

C
C++
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

yes

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

yes

online/offline synchronization between client and server

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

ACID across one or more tables within a single AWS account and region

ACID

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

Access rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Database file passwords

yes

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