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DBMS > 4D vs. H2 vs. ObjectBox vs. Rockset vs. TimescaleDB

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. H2 vs. ObjectBox vs. Rockset vs. TimescaleDB

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  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.Lightweight, fast on-device database for IoT, Mobile and Embedded devices, persisting and synchronising objects and vectorsA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDBA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSObject oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS
Document storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Search engine
Relational DBMS
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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
Score0.82
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score4.46
Rank#71  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comwww.h2database.comgithub.com/­objectbox
objectbox.io
rockset.comwww.timescale.com
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmldocs.objectbox.iodocs.rockset.comdocs.timescale.com
Developer4D, IncThomas MuellerObjectBox LimitedRocksetTimescale
Initial release19842005201720192017
Current releasev20, April 20232.2.220, July 20234.0 (May 2024)2.15.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)Bindings are released under Apache 2.0 infoApache License 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++C++C
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMAndroid
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows
hostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes, plus "flex" map-like typesdynamic typingnumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types
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 infoingestion from XML files supportedyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesall fields are automatically indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92yesnoRead-only SQL queries, including JOINsyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntax
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native APIHTTP RESTADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
JavaC
C++
Dart (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsnonouser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell
Triggersyesyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenoneAutomatic shardingyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes
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 offlineyesSource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas info
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDnoACID
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.noyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset consolefine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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4D infoformer name: 4th DimensionH2ObjectBoxRocksetTimescaleDB
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