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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. atoti vs. H2 vs. ObjectBox vs. PouchDB

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonatoti  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemAn in-memory DBMS combining transactional and analytical processing to handle the aggregation of ever-changing data.Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.Lightweight, fast on-device database for IoT, Mobile and Embedded devices, persisting and synchronising objects and vectorsJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB
Primary database modelRelational DBMSObject oriented DBMSRelational DBMSObject oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS
Document store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMS
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Score2.47
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.61
Rank#243  Overall
#11  Object oriented DBMS
Score8.33
Rank#46  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score1.29
Rank#166  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
#7  Vector DBMS
Score2.34
Rank#112  Overall
#21  Document stores
Websitewww.4d.comatoti.iowww.h2database.comgithub.com/­objectbox
objectbox.io
pouchdb.com
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comdocs.atoti.iowww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmldocs.objectbox.iopouchdb.com/­guides
Developer4D, IncActiveViamThomas MuellerObjectBox LimitedApache Software Foundation
Initial release1984200520172012
Current releasev20, April 20232.2.220, July 20234.0 (May 2024)7.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree versions availableOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)Bindings are released under Apache 2.0 infoApache License 2.0Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC and C++JavaScript
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMAndroid
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-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.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92Multidimensional Expressions (MDX)yesnono
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native APIHTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
JavaC
C++
Dart (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesPythonJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined FunctionsnoView functions in JavaScript
Triggersyesyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding, horizontal partitioningnonenoneSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge
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 databaseData sync between devices allowing occasional connected databases to work completely offlineMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend
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-standardyesno
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4D infoformer name: 4th DimensionatotiH2ObjectBoxPouchDB
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