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DBMS > 4D vs. Bangdb vs. H2 vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. ObjectBox

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Bangdb vs. H2 vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. ObjectBox

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Cosmos DB infoformer name was Azure DocumentDB  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemConverged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database serviceLightweight, fast on-device database for IoT, Mobile and Embedded devices, persisting and synchronising objects and vectors
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store
Object oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSSpatial DBMSSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMS
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Score2.47
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.16
Rank#338  Overall
#47  Document stores
#32  Graph DBMS
#31  Time Series DBMS
Score8.33
Rank#46  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score27.71
Rank#27  Overall
#4  Document stores
#2  Graph DBMS
#3  Key-value stores
#3  Wide column stores
Score1.29
Rank#166  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
#7  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.4d.combangdb.comwww.h2database.comazure.microsoft.com/­services/­cosmos-dbgithub.com/­objectbox
objectbox.io
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comdocs.bangdb.comwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmllearn.microsoft.com/­azure/­cosmos-dbdocs.objectbox.io
Developer4D, IncSachin Sinha, BangDBThomas MuellerMicrosoftObjectBox Limited
Initial release19842012200520142017
Current releasev20, April 2023BangDB 2.0, October 20212.2.220, July 20234.0 (May 2024)
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSD 3Open Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)commercialBindings are released under Apache 2.0 infoApache License 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageC, C++JavaC and C++
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
LinuxAll OS with a Java VMhostedAndroid
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsyesyes infoJSON typesyes, plus "flex" map-like types
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.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialyesyes infoAll properties auto-indexed by defaultyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92SQL like support with command line toolyesSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
Java.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python
C
C++
Dart (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined FunctionsJavaScriptno
Triggersyesyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)yesJavaScriptno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmnoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceData sync between devices allowing occasional connected databases to work completely offline
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononowith Hadoop integration infoIntegration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*no
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyImmediate ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDMulti-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partitionACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, optimistic concurrency controlyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes, run db with in-memory only modeyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsyes (enterprise version only)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelyes
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4D infoformer name: 4th DimensionBangdbH2Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB infoformer name was Azure DocumentDBObjectBox
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