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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Apache Impala vs. atoti vs. ObjectBox vs. SpatiaLite

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

An in-memory DBMS combining transactional and analytical processing to handle the aggregation of ever-changing data.

Lightweight, fast on-device database for IoT, Mobile and Embedded devices, persisting and synchronising objects and vectors

Spatial extension of SQLite

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

Object oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
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Score	2.13
Rank	#114	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	10.22
Rank	#40	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

Score	0.43
Rank	#256	Overall
	#12	Object oriented DBMS

Score	1.10
Rank	#173	Overall
	#6	Object oriented DBMS
	#10	Vector DBMS

Score	1.50
Rank	#144	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

impala.apache.org

atoti.io

github.com/objectbox
objectbox.io

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

docs.atoti.io

docs.objectbox.io

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

Developer

4D, Inc

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

ActiveViam

ObjectBox Limited

Alessandro Furieri

Initial release

1984

2013

2017

2008

Current release

v20, April 2023

4.1.0, June 2022

4.0 (May 2024)

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

free versions available

Bindings are released under Apache 2.0

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux

Android
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, plus "flex" map-like types

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

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

Multidimensional Expressions (MDX)

yes

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C
C++
Dart (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

Python

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

selectable replication factor

Data sync between devices allowing occasional connected databases to work completely offline

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

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, groups and roles

based on Apache Sentry and Kerberos

yes

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