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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. gStore vs. H2 vs. LokiJS vs. ObjectBox

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

A native Graph DBMS to store and maintain very large RDF datasets.

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

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

Primary database model

Object oriented DBMS
Vector 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	0.14
Rank	#342	Overall
	#34	Graph DBMS
	#16	RDF stores

Score	8.33
Rank	#46	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#260	Overall
	#42	Document stores

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

Website

www.4d.com

en.gstore.cn

www.h2database.com

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

github.com/objectbox
objectbox.io

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

en.gstore.cn/#/enDocs

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

docs.objectbox.io

Developer

4D, Inc

Thomas Mueller

ObjectBox Limited

Initial release

1984

2016

2005

2014

2017

Current release

v20, April 2023

1.2, November 2023

2.2.220, July 2023

4.0 (May 2024)

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

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

Open Source

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

C++

Java

JavaScript

C and C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Android
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

yes

schema-free

yes

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

via views

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

HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

JDBC
ODBC

JavaScript API

Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

Java

JavaScript

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

none

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

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

ACID

atomic operations within a single collection possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

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

Users, roles and permissions, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) supported

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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