DBMS > 4D vs. JaguarDB vs. ObjectBox vs. SAP IQ vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. JaguarDB vs. ObjectBox vs. SAP IQ vs. Snowflake

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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

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	2.58
Rank	#108	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores
	#13	Vector DBMS

Score	1.20
Rank	#170	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

www.jaguardb.com

objectbox.io

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

docs.objectbox.io

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

4D, Inc

DataJaguar, Inc.

ObjectBox Limited

SAP, formerly Sybase

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

1984

2015

2017

1994

2014

Current release

v20, April 2023

3.3 July 2023

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3.0

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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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
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary native API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

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

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

online/offline synchronization between client and server

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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