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

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonITTIA  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemFull-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 ProcessingLightweight, fast on-device database for IoT, Mobile and Embedded devices, persisting and synchronising objects and vectorsOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSObject oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS
Search engine
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
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Score2.47
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score8.33
Rank#46  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score0.44
Rank#267  Overall
#23  Time Series DBMS
Score1.29
Rank#166  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
#7  Vector DBMS
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitewww.4d.comwww.h2database.comwww.ittia.comgithub.com/­objectbox
objectbox.io
sphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmldocs.objectbox.iosphinxsearch.com/­docs
Developer4D, IncThomas MuellerITTIA L.L.C.ObjectBox LimitedSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release19842005200720172001
Current releasev20, April 20232.2.220, July 20238.74.0 (May 2024)3.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)commercialBindings are released under Apache 2.0 infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++C and C++C++
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux
Windows
Android
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesFixed schemayesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesFloat/Blob/Integer/String/Unicode/Date/Time/Timestamp/Intervalyes, plus "flex" map-like typesno
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.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92yesyesnoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
Proprietary native APIProprietary protocol
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
JavaC
C++
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C++
Dart (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsyesnono
Triggersyesyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
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 databaseyesData sync between devices allowing occasional connected databases to work completely offlinenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDyesACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardDatabase file passwordsyesno
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4D infoformer name: 4th DimensionH2ITTIAObjectBoxSphinx
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