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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. KairosDB vs. ObjectBox

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

Lightweight, fast on-device database for IoT, Mobile and Embedded devices, persisting and synchronising objects and vectors

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Object oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	1.88
Rank	#123	Overall
	#59	Relational DBMS

Score	0.56
Rank	#241	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.11
Rank	#175	Overall
	#7	Object oriented DBMS
	#13	Vector DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

github.com/objectbox
objectbox.io

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

kairosdb.github.io

docs.objectbox.io

Developer

4D, Inc

ObjectBox Limited

Initial release

1984

2013

2017

Current release

v20, April 2023

1.2.2, November 2018

4.0 (May 2024)

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Bindings are released under Apache 2.0

Apache License 2.0

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

Linux
OS X
Windows

Android
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, plus "flex" map-like types

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

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

C
C++
Dart (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Data sync between devices allowing occasional connected databases to work completely offline

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

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

simple password-based access control

yes

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