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DBMS > 4D vs. GeoSpock vs. H2 vs. IRONdb vs. ObjectBox

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. GeoSpock vs. H2 vs. IRONdb vs. ObjectBox

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemSpatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityLightweight, fast on-device database for IoT, Mobile and Embedded devices, persisting and synchronising objects and vectors
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSObject oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMS
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Score2.47
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score8.33
Rank#46  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score1.29
Rank#166  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
#7  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comgeospock.comwww.h2database.comwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/github.com/­objectbox
objectbox.io
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmldocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-starteddocs.objectbox.io
Developer4D, IncGeoSpockThomas MuellerCirconus LLC.ObjectBox Limited
Initial release1984200520172017
Current releasev20, April 20232.0, September 20192.2.220, July 2023V0.10.20, January 20184.0 (May 2024)
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen 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 servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJava, JavascriptJavaC and C++C and C++
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
hostedAll OS with a Java VMLinuxAndroid
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyes, 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.yesnononono
Secondary indexesyestemporal, categoricalyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)yesSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)no
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
JDBCJDBC
ODBC
HTTP APIProprietary native API
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
Java.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C
C++
Dart (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsyes, in Luano
Triggersyesnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneAutomatic shardingnoneAutomatic, metric affinity per nodenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareData sync between devices allowing occasional connected databases to work completely offline
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsAccess rights for users can be defined per tablefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoyes
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4D infoformer name: 4th DimensionGeoSpockH2IRONdbObjectBox
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