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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. H2 vs. ObjectBox vs. searchxml vs. Teradata

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Name

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.

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

A hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
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

Score	0.03
Rank	#390	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Score	44.87
Rank	#22	Overall
	#15	Relational DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

www.h2database.com

objectbox.io

www.searchxml.net/category/products

www.teradata.com

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

docs.objectbox.io

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

docs.teradata.com

Developer

4D, Inc

Thomas Mueller

ObjectBox Limited

informationpartners gmbh

Teradata

Initial release

1984

2005

2017

2015

1984

Current release

v20, April 2023

2.2.220, July 2023

1.0

Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

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

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

Windows

hosted
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

Join-index to prejoin tables, aggregate index, sparse index, hash index

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

SQL 2016 + extensions

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary native API

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

.NET Client API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

Java

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

C
C++
Cobol
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
Perl
PL/1
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

yes

on the application server

yes

UDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallel

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Hashing

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

online/offline synchronization between client and server

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

multiple readers, single writer

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

yes

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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