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DBMS > 4D vs. FeatureBase vs. H2 vs. ObjectBox vs. Oracle Coherence

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. FeatureBase vs. H2 vs. ObjectBox vs. Oracle Coherence

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonFeatureBase  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Coherence  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemReal-time database platform that powers real-time analytics and machine learning applications by simultaneously executing low-latency, high-throughput, and highly concurrent workloads.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 vectorsOracles in-memory data grid solution
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSObject oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS
Key-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMS
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Score2.47
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.31
Rank#292  Overall
#135  Relational DBMS
Score8.33
Rank#46  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score1.29
Rank#166  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
#7  Vector DBMS
Score1.97
Rank#129  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Websitewww.4d.comwww.featurebase.comwww.h2database.comgithub.com/­objectbox
objectbox.io
www.oracle.com/­java/­coherence
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comdocs.featurebase.comwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmldocs.objectbox.iodocs.oracle.com/­en/­middleware/­standalone/­coherence
Developer4D, IncMolecula and Pilosa Open Source ContributorsThomas MuellerObjectBox LimitedOracle
Initial release19842017200520172007
Current releasev20, April 20232022, May 20222.2.220, July 20234.0 (May 2024)14.1, August 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)Bindings are released under Apache 2.0 infoApache License 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoJavaC and C++Java
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
All OS with a Java VMAndroid
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows
All OS with a Java VM
Data schemeyesyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes, plus "flex" map-like typesyes
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 indexesyesnoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92SQL queriesyesnono
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
gRPC
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native APIJCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
Java
Python
JavaC
C++
Dart (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift
.Net
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsnono
Triggersyesnoyesnoyes infoLive Events
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyesWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseData sync between devices allowing occasional connected databases to work completely offlineyes, with selectable consistency level
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyesACIDACIDconfigurable
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, using Linux fsyncyesyesyes infooptionally
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesauthentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication
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4D infoformer name: 4th DimensionFeatureBaseH2ObjectBoxOracle Coherence
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