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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. ObjectBox vs. searchxml vs. SQL.JS

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Name

This system has been discontinued and will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Highly scalable database system, designed for managing session and subscriber data in modern mobile communication networks

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Object oriented DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	2.58
Rank	#108	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	1.20
Rank	#170	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#25	Search engines

Score	0.53
Rank	#252	Overall
	#116	Relational DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

atos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repository

objectbox.io

www.searchxml.net/category/products

sql.js.org

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

docs.objectbox.io

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

Developer

4D, Inc

Atos Convergence Creators

ObjectBox Limited

informationpartners gmbh

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Initial release

1984

2016

2017

2015

2012

Current release

v20, April 2023

1703

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

C++

JavaScript

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

yes

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

LDAP

Proprietary native API

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

All languages with LDAP bindings

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

on the application server

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

cell division

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

online/offline synchronization between client and server

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic execution of specific operations

ACID

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

except by serializing a db to a file

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

LDAP bind authentication

yes

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

More information provided by the system vendor

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15 February 2024

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14 November 2023

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9 August 2023

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13 June 2023

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