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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. GigaSpaces vs. H2 vs. Immudb vs. ObjectBox

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonGigaSpaces  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonImmudb  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemHigh performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented TransactionsFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.An open source immutable (append-only) database with cryptographic verification which makes it tamper-resistant and fully auditable.Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS infoValues are user defined objects
Relational DBMSKey-value storeObject oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
Search engine
Spatial DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
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Score2.47
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score1.03
Rank#188  Overall
#32  Document stores
#6  Object oriented DBMS
Score8.33
Rank#46  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score0.31
Rank#295  Overall
#42  Key-value stores
Score1.29
Rank#166  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comwww.gigaspaces.comwww.h2database.comgithub.com/­codenotary/­immudb
immudb.io
objectbox.io
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comdocs.gigaspaces.com/­latest/­landing.htmlwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmldocs.immudb.iodocs.objectbox.io
Developer4D, IncGigaspaces TechnologiesThomas MuellerCodenotaryObjectBox Limited
Initial release19842000200520202017
Current releasev20, April 202315.5, September 20202.2.220, July 20231.2.3, April 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial licenses availableOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache License 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJava, C++, .NetJavaGoC and C++
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VMBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.yesno infoXML can be used for describing objects metadatanonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92SQL-99 for query and DML statementsyesSQL-like syntaxno
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
JDBC
ODBC
gRPC protocol
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala
Java.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsnono
Triggersyesyes, event driven architectureyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseonline/offline synchronization between client and server
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoMap-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executorsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANYImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACIDACID
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.noyesyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsRole-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes
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