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DBMS > 4D vs. H2 vs. InterSystems Caché vs. ObjectBox vs. OceanBase

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. H2 vs. InterSystems Caché vs. ObjectBox vs. OceanBase

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonOceanBase  Xexclude from comparison
Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.
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.A multi-model DBMS and application serverLightweight, fast on-device database for IoT, Mobile and Embedded devices, persisting and synchronising objects and vectorsA distributed, high available RDBMS compatible with Oracle and MySQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMSDocument store
Wide column store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.47
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score8.33
Rank#46  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score1.29
Rank#166  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
#7  Vector DBMS
Score1.57
Rank#149  Overall
#69  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comwww.h2database.comwww.intersystems.com/­products/­cachegithub.com/­objectbox
objectbox.io
en.oceanbase.com
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmldocs.intersystems.comdocs.objectbox.ioen.oceanbase.com/­docs/­oceanbase-database
Developer4D, IncThomas MuellerInterSystemsObjectBox LimitedOceanBase infopreviously Alibaba and Ant Group
Initial release19842005199720172010
Current releasev20, April 20232.2.220, July 20232018.1.4, May 20204.0 (May 2024)4.3.0, April 2024
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 infoCommercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++C++
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Android
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyesdepending on used data modelyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes, plus "flex" map-like typesyes
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.yesnoyesnoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92yesyesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
JDBC
ODBC
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary native APIJDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Proprietary native API
Table API
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
JavaC#
C++
Java
C
C++
Dart (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift
Ada infoin MySQL-compatible model
C infoin Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
C++ infoin Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
D infoin MySQL-compatible model
Delphi infoin MySQL-compatible model
Eiffel infoin MySQL-compatible model
Erlang infoin MySQL-compatible model
Haskell infoin MySQL-compatible model
Java infoin Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
JavaScript (Node.js) infoin MySQL-compatible model
Objective-C infoin MySQL-compatible model
OCaml infoin MySQL-compatible model
Perl infoin MySQL-compatible model
PHP infoin MySQL-compatible model
Python infoin MySQL-compatible model
Ruby infoin MySQL-compatible model
Scheme infoin MySQL-compatible model
Tcl infoin MySQL-compatible model
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined FunctionsyesnoPL/SQL in oracle-compatible mode, MySQL Stored Procedure in mysql-compatible mode
Triggersyesyesyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenonenonehorizontal partitioning (by hash, key, range, range columns, list, and list columns)
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 databaseSource-replica replicationData sync between devices allowing occasional connected databases to work completely offlineMulti-source replication using Paxos
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
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-standardAccess rights for users, groups and rolesyesAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard
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4D infoformer name: 4th DimensionH2InterSystems CachéObjectBoxOceanBase
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