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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. JaguarDB vs. Realm vs. SpaceTime

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Document store

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	2.68
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.09
Rank	#356	Overall
	#53	Key-value stores
	#13	Vector DBMS

Score	7.71
Rank	#52	Overall
	#9	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#396	Overall
	#8	Spatial DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

www.jaguardb.com

realm.io

www.mireo.com/spacetime

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

realm.io/docs

Developer

4D, Inc

DataJaguar, Inc.

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

Mireo

Initial release

1984

2015

2014

2020

Current release

v20, April 2023

3.3 July 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3.0

Open Source

commercial

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++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

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

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

C#
C++
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

Triggers

yes

Change Listeners

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

none

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

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.

yes

In-Memory realm

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

rights management via user accounts

yes

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