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DBMS > 4D vs. H2 vs. LMDB vs. ObjectBox vs. Speedb

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. H2 vs. LMDB vs. ObjectBox vs. Speedb

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonLMDB  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonSpeedb  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.A high performant, light-weight, embedded key-value database libraryLightweight, fast on-device database for IoT, Mobile and Embedded devices, persisting and synchronising objects and vectorsAn embeddable, high performance key-value store optimized for write-intensive workloads, which can be used as a drop-in replacement for RocksDB
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeObject oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS
Key-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMS
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Score2.37
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score7.57
Rank#47  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score1.94
Rank#120  Overall
#20  Key-value stores
Score1.08
Rank#179  Overall
#6  Object oriented DBMS
#9  Vector DBMS
Score0.20
Rank#310  Overall
#44  Key-value stores
Websitewww.4d.comwww.h2database.comwww.symas.com/­symas-embedded-database-lmdbgithub.com/­objectbox
objectbox.io
www.speedb.io
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlwww.lmdb.tech/­docdocs.objectbox.io
Developer4D, IncThomas MuellerSymasObjectBox LimitedSpeedb
Initial release19842005201120172020
Current releasev20, April 20232.2.220, July 20230.9.32, January 20244.0 (May 2024)
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)Open SourceBindings are released under Apache 2.0 infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0; commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaCC and C++C++
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux
Unix
Windows
Android
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes, 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.yesnononono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92yesnonono
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
Java.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Nim
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Swift
Tcl
C
C++
Dart (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsnonono
Triggersyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenonenonehorizontal partitioning
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 databasenoneData sync between devices allowing occasional connected databases to work completely offlineyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACIDyes
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.noyesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoyesno
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4D infoformer name: 4th DimensionH2LMDBObjectBoxSpeedb
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