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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. H2 vs. Ingres vs. ObjectBox vs. OpenQM

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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.

Well established RDBMS

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial 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	3.80
Rank	#82	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Score	1.29
Rank	#166	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.34
Rank	#284	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

www.h2database.com

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

objectbox.io

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-open-qm

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

docs.actian.com/ingres

docs.objectbox.io

Developer

4D, Inc

Thomas Mueller

Actian Corporation

ObjectBox Limited

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

Initial release

1984

2005

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

2017

1993

Current release

v20, April 2023

2.2.220, July 2023

11.2, May 2022

3.4-12

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

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

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

with some exceptions

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

but tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available

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

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

Java

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

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

Ingres Replicator

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

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

yes

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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