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DBMS > 4D vs. Graphite vs. HBase vs. ObjectBox vs. Oracle Berkeley DB

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Graphite vs. HBase vs. ObjectBox vs. Oracle Berkeley DB

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Berkeley DB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileWidely used in-process key-value store
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSWide column storeObject oriented DBMSKey-value store infosupports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS infoin the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score4.57
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score30.50
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score1.20
Rank#170  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score2.21
Rank#117  Overall
#20  Key-value stores
#3  Native XML DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comgithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webhbase.apache.orgobjectbox.iowww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­berkeleydb.html
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comgraphite.readthedocs.iohbase.apache.org/­book.htmldocs.objectbox.iodocs.oracle.com/­cd/­E17076_05/­html/­index.html
Developer4D, IncChris DavisApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetObjectBox LimitedOracle infooriginally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle
Initial release19842006200820171994
Current releasev20, April 20232.3.4, January 202118.1.40, May 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infocommercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonJavaC and C++C, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
Linux
Unix
Linux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-free, schema definition possibleyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data onlyoptions to bring your own types, AVROyesno
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 infoonly with the Berkeley DB XML edition
Secondary indexesyesnonoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92nononoyes infoSQL interfaced based on SQLite is available
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
HTTP API
Sockets
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
.Net infoFigaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others infoThird-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyes infoCoprocessors in Javanono
Triggersyesnoyesnoyes infoonly for the SQL API
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
online/offline synchronization between client and serverSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)ACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infolockingyesyes
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.noyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsnoAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACyesno
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