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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Apache Kylin vs. ObjectBox vs. Rockset

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

A distributed analytics engine for big data, providing a SQL interface and multi-dimensional analysis (OLAP) and leveraging the Hadoop stack

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

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Object oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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Score	2.37
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	1.14
Rank	#171	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

Score	1.08
Rank	#179	Overall
	#6	Object oriented DBMS
	#9	Vector DBMS

Score	1.07
Rank	#180	Overall
	#31	Document stores

Website

www.4d.com

kylin.apache.org

github.com/objectbox
objectbox.io

rockset.com

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

kylin.apache.org/docs

docs.objectbox.io

docs.rockset.com

Developer

4D, Inc

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay Inc

ObjectBox Limited

Rockset

Initial release

1984

2015

2017

2019

Current release

v20, April 2023

3.1.0, July 2020

4.0 (May 2024)

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Bindings are released under Apache 2.0

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux

Android
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, plus "flex" map-like types

dynamic typing

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

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary native API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

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

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Automatic sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

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

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual 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

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

yes

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

More information provided by the system vendor

News

MongoDB Realm & Device Sync alternatives – ObjectBox
17 September 2024

Local AI – what it is and why we need it
11 September 2024

First on-device Vector Database (aka Semantic Index) for iOS
24 July 2024

Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) with vector databases: Expanding AI Capabilities
18 June 2024

The on-device Vector Database for Android and Java
29 May 2024

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