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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Apache Jena - TDB vs. Blueflood vs. H2 vs. ObjectBox

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

A RDF storage and query DBMS, shipped as an optional-use component of the Apache Jena framework

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

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

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	2.47
Rank	#110	Overall
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Score	3.62
Rank	#83	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	0.13
Rank	#346	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Score	8.33
Rank	#46	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Score	1.29
Rank	#166	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

jena.apache.org/documentation/tdb/index.html

blueflood.io

www.h2database.com

objectbox.io

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

jena.apache.org/documentation/tdb/index.html

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

docs.objectbox.io

Developer

4D, Inc

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

Rackspace

Thomas Mueller

ObjectBox Limited

Initial release

1984

2000

2013

2005

2017

Current release

v20, April 2023

4.9.0, July 2023

2.2.220, July 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

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

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X

All OS with a Java VM

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

predefined scheme

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

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

HTTP REST

JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

Java

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

Triggers

yes

via event handler

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

none

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

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

online/offline synchronization between client and server

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

TDB Transactions

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 control via Jena Security

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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