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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. ArangoDB vs. Graphite vs. ObjectBox vs. OceanBase

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonArangoDB  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonOceanBase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemNative multi-model DBMS for graph, document, key/value and search. All in one engine and accessible with one query language.Data logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileA distributed, high available RDBMS compatible with Oracle and MySQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Search engine
Time Series DBMSObject oriented DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSDocument store
Wide column store
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Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score3.32
Rank#90  Overall
#15  Document stores
#5  Graph DBMS
#12  Key-value stores
#10  Search engines
Score4.57
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score1.20
Rank#170  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score1.66
Rank#147  Overall
#68  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comarangodb.comgithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webobjectbox.ioen.oceanbase.com
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comdocs.arangodb.comgraphite.readthedocs.iodocs.objectbox.ioen.oceanbase.com/­docs/­oceanbase-database
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebookYouTubeInstagram
Developer4D, IncArangoDB Inc.Chris DavisObjectBox LimitedOceanBase infopreviously Alibaba and Ant Group
Initial release19842012200620172010
Current releasev20, April 20233.11.5, November 20234.3.0, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial license (Enterprise) availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoCommercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++PythonC and C++C++
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Unix
Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-free infoautomatically recognizes schema within a collectionyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infostring, double, boolean, list, hashNumeric data onlyyesyes
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.yesnonoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92nononoyes
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
AQL
Foxx Framework
Graph API (Gremlin)
GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Java & SpringData
JSON style queries
VelocyPack/VelocyStream
HTTP API
Sockets
Proprietary native APIJDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Proprietary native API
Table API
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
C#
C++
Clojure
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Rust
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
Ada infoin MySQL-compatible model
C infoin Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
C++ infoin Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
D infoin MySQL-compatible model
Delphi infoin MySQL-compatible model
Eiffel infoin MySQL-compatible model
Erlang infoin MySQL-compatible model
Haskell infoin MySQL-compatible model
Java infoin Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
JavaScript (Node.js) infoin MySQL-compatible model
Objective-C infoin MySQL-compatible model
OCaml infoin MySQL-compatible model
Perl infoin MySQL-compatible model
PHP infoin MySQL-compatible model
Python infoin MySQL-compatible model
Ruby infoin MySQL-compatible model
Scheme infoin MySQL-compatible model
Tcl infoin MySQL-compatible model
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesJavaScriptnonoPL/SQL in oracle-compatible mode, MySQL Stored Procedure in mysql-compatible mode
Triggersyesnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infosince version 2.0nonenonehorizontal partitioning (by hash, key, range, range columns, list, and list columns)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationSource-replica replication with configurable replication factornoneonline/offline synchronization between client and serverMulti-source replication using Paxos
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono infocan be done with stored procedures in JavaScriptnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoconfigurable per collection or per write
Immediate Consistency
OneShard (highly available, fault-tolerant deployment mode with ACID semantics)
noneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes inforelationships in graphsnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infolockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsyesnoyesAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard
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4D infoformer name: 4th DimensionArangoDBGraphiteObjectBoxOceanBase
Specific characteristicsGraph and Beyond. With more than 11,000 stargazers on GitHub, ArangoDB is the leading...
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OceanBase Database is the world’s only native distributed database that has set new...
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Competitive advantagesConsolidation: As a native multi-model database, can be used as a full blown document...
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High Availability : The five IDCs across three sites disaster recovery solution sets...
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Typical application scenariosNative multi-model in ArangoDB is being used for a broad range of projects across...
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Key customersCisco, Barclays, Refinitive, Siemens Mentor, Kabbage, Liaison, Douglas, MakeMyTrip,...
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OceanBase Database has helped over 400 customers across industries upgrade their...
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Market metricsArangoDB is the leading native multi-model database with over 11,000 stargazers on...
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TPC-C No.1 Performance , achieved a result of 707.35 million tpmC in the TPC-C benchmark...
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Licensing and pricing modelsVery permissive Apache 2 License for Community Edition & commercial licenses are...
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Mulan PubL v2 license for open source community edition. Commercial license for enterprise...
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