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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Ehcache vs. GridDB vs. KeyDB vs. ObjectBox

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonGridDB  Xexclude from comparisonKeyDB  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemA widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage optionsScalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big DataAn ultra-fast, open source Key-value store fully compatible with Redis API, modules, and protocolsExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMSKey-value storeObject oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.47
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score4.64
Rank#68  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Score2.09
Rank#120  Overall
#10  Time Series DBMS
Score0.70
Rank#229  Overall
#32  Key-value stores
Score1.29
Rank#166  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comwww.ehcache.orggriddb.netgithub.com/­Snapchat/­KeyDB
keydb.dev
objectbox.io
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comwww.ehcache.org/­documentationdocs.griddb.netdocs.keydb.devdocs.objectbox.io
Developer4D, IncTerracotta Inc, owned by Software AGToshiba CorporationEQ Alpha Technology Ltd.ObjectBox Limited
Initial release19842009201320192017
Current releasev20, April 20233.10.0, March 20225.1, August 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoAGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also availableOpen Source infoBSD-3Open Source infoApache License 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++C++C and C++
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinuxLinuxAndroid
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infonumerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestamppartial infoSupported data types are strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets, bit arrays, hyperloglogs and geospatial indexesyes
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.yesnononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes infoby using the Redis Search moduleyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92noSQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)nono
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
JCacheJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Proprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocoProprietary native API
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
JavaC
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Crystal
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Fancy
Go
Haskell
Haxe
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Pascal
Perl
PHP
Prolog
Pure Data
Python
R
Rebol
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Swift
Tcl
Visual Basic
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonoLuano
Triggersyesyes infoCache Event Listenersyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoby using Terracotta ServerShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyes infoby using Terracotta ServerSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
online/offline synchronization between client and server
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoConnector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobsnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyTunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)Immediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containersEventual Consistency
Strong eventual consistency with CRDTs
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyes infosupports JTA and can work as an XA resourceACID at container levelOptimistic locking, atomic execution of commands blocks and scriptsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing a tiered cache-storage approachyesyes infoConfigurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logsyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsnoAccess rights for users can be defined per databasesimple password-based access control and ACLyes
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4D infoformer name: 4th DimensionEhcacheGridDBKeyDBObjectBox
Specific characteristicsGridDB is a highly scalable, in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and...
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Competitive advantages1. Optimized for IoT Equipped with Toshiba's proprietary key-container data model...
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Typical application scenariosFactory IoT, Automative Industry, Energy, BEMS, Smart Community, Monitoring system.
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Key customersDenso International [see use case ] An Electric Power company [see use case ] Ishinomaki...
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Market metricsGitHub trending repository
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen Source license (AGPL v3 & Apache v2) Commercial license (subscription)
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