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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. BaseX vs. H2 vs. ObjectBox vs. searchxml

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Light-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.

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

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

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Native XML DBMS

Relational DBMS

Object oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	2.37
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	1.56
Rank	#141	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	7.57
Rank	#47	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Website

www.4d.com

basex.org

www.h2database.com

github.com/objectbox
objectbox.io

www.searchxml.net/category/products

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

docs.basex.org

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

docs.objectbox.io

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

Developer

4D, Inc

BaseX GmbH

Thomas Mueller

ObjectBox Limited

informationpartners gmbh

Initial release

1984

2007

2005

2017

2015

Current release

v20, April 2023

11.2, August 2024

2.2.220, July 2023

4.0 (May 2024)

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

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

Bindings are released under Apache 2.0

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Android
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XQuery supports types

yes

yes, plus "flex" map-like types

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

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary native API

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

Java

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

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

yes

on the application server

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

none

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

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

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

multiple readers, single writer

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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

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