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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. H2GIS vs. ObjectBox vs. Oracle Rdb

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Spatial extension of H2

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	2.58
Rank	#108	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	1.20
Rank	#170	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	1.08
Rank	#184	Overall
	#85	Relational DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

www.h2gis.org

objectbox.io

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

docs.objectbox.io

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

Developer

4D, Inc

CNRS

ObjectBox Limited

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Initial release

1984

2013

2017

1984

Current release

v20, April 2023

7.4.1.1, 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

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++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

HP Open VMS

Data scheme

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

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

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

Proprietary native API

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

based on H2

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

yes

based on H2

online/offline synchronization between client and server

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

yes, on a single node

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

yes

based on H2

yes

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News

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21 May 2024

The first On-Device Vector Database: ObjectBox 4.0
16 May 2024

Edge AI: The era of on-device AI
23 April 2024

In-Memory Database Use Cases
15 February 2024

Data Viewer for Objects – announcing ObjectBox Admin
14 November 2023

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