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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Dragonfly vs. ObjectBox vs. SpatiaLite

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

A drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instance

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

Spatial extension of SQLite

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Object oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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

Score	2.47
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#261	Overall
	#38	Key-value stores

Score	1.29
Rank	#166	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS
	#7	Vector DBMS

Score	1.63
Rank	#146	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

github.com/dragonflydb/dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io

github.com/objectbox
objectbox.io

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

www.dragonflydb.io/docs

docs.objectbox.io

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

Developer

4D, Inc

DragonflyDB team and community contributors

ObjectBox Limited

Alessandro Furieri

Initial release

1984

2023

2017

2008

Current release

v20, April 2023

1.0, March 2023

4.0 (May 2024)

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSL 1.1

Bindings are released under Apache 2.0

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux

Android
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

yes

scheme-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

strings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arrays

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

Proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protocol

Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

C
C#
C++
Clojure
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Tcl

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Lua

Triggers

yes

publish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionality

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

Source-replica replication

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

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic execution of command blocks and scripts

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, strict serializability by the server

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

Password-based authentication

yes

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