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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. H2 vs. ITTIA vs. ObjectBox vs. PieCloudDB

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

Edge Time Series DBMS with Real-Time Stream Processing

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

A cloud-native analytic database platform with new technologoy for elastic MPP

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	2.47
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	8.33
Rank	#46	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Score	0.44
Rank	#267	Overall
	#23	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.29
Rank	#166	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.32
Rank	#289	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

docs.objectbox.io

Developer

4D, Inc

Thomas Mueller

ITTIA L.L.C.

ObjectBox Limited

OpenPie

Initial release

1984

2005

2007

2017

Current release

v20, April 2023

2.2.220, July 2023

8.7

2.1, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Windows

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

Fixed schema

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Float/Blob/Integer/String/Unicode/Date/Time/Timestamp/Interval

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

Proprietary native API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

Java

C
C++
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

Java
PL/SQL
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

yes

online/offline synchronization between client and server

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Database file passwords

yes

User Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL Standard

More information provided by the system vendor

Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

Sail-Cloud China Shipbuilding Group Haizhou System Soochow Securities etc.,
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Licensing and pricing models

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