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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. JaguarDB vs. ObjectBox vs. OpenQM

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	2.47
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#381	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores
	#13	Vector DBMS

Score	1.29
Rank	#166	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.34
Rank	#284	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

www.jaguardb.com

objectbox.io

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-open-qm

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

docs.objectbox.io

Developer

4D, Inc

DataJaguar, Inc.

ObjectBox Limited

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

Initial release

1984

2015

2017

1993

Current release

v20, April 2023

3.3 July 2023

3.4-12

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3.0

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

C and C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

with some exceptions

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

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

online/offline synchronization between client and server

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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.

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

rights management via user accounts

yes

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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