DBMS > 4D vs. H2 vs. InterSystems Caché vs. ObjectBox vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. H2 vs. InterSystems Caché vs. ObjectBox vs. SWC-DB

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Name

Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.

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.

A multi-model DBMS and application server

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

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Object oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store

Time Series DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	2.47
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	8.33
Rank	#46	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.08
Rank	#364	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

www.4d.com

www.h2database.com

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

github.com/objectbox
objectbox.io

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

docs.intersystems.com

docs.objectbox.io

Developer

4D, Inc

Thomas Mueller

InterSystems

ObjectBox Limited

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

1984

2005

1997

2017

2020

Current release

v20, April 2023

2.2.220, July 2023

2018.1.4, May 2020

4.0 (May 2024)

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

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

commercial

Bindings are released under Apache 2.0

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Android
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

depending on used data model

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary native API

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

Java

C#
C++
Java

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

C++

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

Sharding

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

Source-replica replication

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

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

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles

yes

More information provided by the system vendor

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