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

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

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonOceanBase  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be 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.Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileA distributed, high available RDBMS compatible with Oracle and MySQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSObject oriented DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Wide column store
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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
Score1.57
Rank#149  Overall
#69  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comgeospock.comwww.h2database.comobjectbox.ioen.oceanbase.com
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmldocs.objectbox.ioen.oceanbase.com/­docs/­oceanbase-database
Developer4D, IncGeoSpockThomas MuellerObjectBox LimitedOceanBase infopreviously Alibaba and Ant Group
Initial release1984200520172010
Current releasev20, April 20232.0, September 20192.2.220, July 20234.3.0, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)Open Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoCommercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJava, JavascriptJavaC and C++C++
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
hostedAll OS with a Java VMAndroid
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.yesnononoyes
Secondary indexesyestemporal, categoricalyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)yesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
JDBCJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native APIJDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Proprietary native API
Table API
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
JavaC
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
Ada infoin MySQL-compatible model
C infoin Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
C++ infoin Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
D infoin MySQL-compatible model
Delphi infoin MySQL-compatible model
Eiffel infoin MySQL-compatible model
Erlang infoin MySQL-compatible model
Haskell infoin MySQL-compatible model
Java infoin Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
JavaScript (Node.js) infoin MySQL-compatible model
Objective-C infoin MySQL-compatible model
OCaml infoin MySQL-compatible model
Perl infoin MySQL-compatible model
PHP infoin MySQL-compatible model
Python infoin MySQL-compatible model
Ruby infoin MySQL-compatible model
Scheme infoin MySQL-compatible model
Tcl infoin MySQL-compatible model
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined FunctionsnoPL/SQL in oracle-compatible mode, MySQL Stored Procedure in mysql-compatible mode
Triggersyesnoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneAutomatic shardingnonenonehorizontal partitioning (by hash, key, range, range columns, list, and list columns)
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 databaseonline/offline synchronization between client and serverMulti-source replication using Paxos
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACIDACID
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.nonoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsAccess rights for users can be defined per tablefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard
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