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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Graphite vs. HBase vs. ObjectBox vs. Realm

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Data logging and graphing tool for time series data

The storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper

Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	2.58
Rank	#108	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	4.57
Rank	#73	Overall
	#5	Time Series DBMS

Score	30.50
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	1.20
Rank	#170	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	7.60
Rank	#52	Overall
	#9	Document stores

Website

www.4d.com

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

hbase.apache.org

objectbox.io

realm.io

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

graphite.readthedocs.io

hbase.apache.org/book.html

docs.objectbox.io

realm.io/docs

Developer

4D, Inc

Chris Davis

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

ObjectBox Limited

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

Initial release

1984

2006

2008

2017

2014

Current release

v20, April 2023

2.3.4, January 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Python

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux
Unix

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free, schema definition possible

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

options to bring your own types, AVRO

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

HTTP API
Sockets

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Coprocessors in Java

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

Triggers

yes

Change Listeners

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

online/offline synchronization between client and server

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

In-Memory realm

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

Access Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

yes

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15 February 2024

Data Viewer for Objects – announcing ObjectBox Admin
14 November 2023

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9 August 2023

Vector Database Release for Flutter / Dart + Python
13 June 2023

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