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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. H2 vs. Ignite vs. NCache vs. ObjectBox

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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.

Apache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.

Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store

Lightweight, fast on-device database for IoT, Mobile and Embedded devices, persisting and synchronising objects and vectors

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Object oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

Time Series DBMS

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Score	2.47
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	8.33
Rank	#46	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Score	3.11
Rank	#96	Overall
	#15	Key-value stores
	#49	Relational DBMS

Score	0.96
Rank	#195	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Score	1.29
Rank	#166	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS
	#7	Vector DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

www.h2database.com

ignite.apache.org

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

github.com/objectbox
objectbox.io

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

apacheignite.readme.io/docs

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

docs.objectbox.io

Developer

4D, Inc

Thomas Mueller

Apache Software Foundation

Alachisoft

ObjectBox Limited

Initial release

1984

2005

2015

2005

2017

Current release

v20, April 2023

2.2.220, July 2023

Apache Ignite 2.6

5.3.3, April 2024

4.0 (May 2024)

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

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

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

Bindings are released under Apache 2.0

Apache License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++, Java, .Net

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

Android
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

partial

Supported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter

yes, plus "flex" map-like types

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

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

SQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

JDBC
ODBC

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

Java

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

C
C++
Dart (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

Triggers

yes

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

Notifications

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

yes

none

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 (replicated cache)

yes, with selectable consistency level

Data sync between devices allowing occasional connected databases to work completely offline

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

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

Security Hooks for custom implementations

Authentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)

yes

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

Bank of America, Citi, Natures Way, Charter Spectrum, Barclays, Henry Schein, GBM,...
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Market metrics

Market Leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005.
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Licensing and pricing models

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