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DBMS > 4D vs. KeyDB vs. ObjectBox vs. Spark SQL

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. KeyDB vs. ObjectBox vs. Spark SQL

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonKeyDB  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemAn ultra-fast, open source Key-value store fully compatible with Redis API, modules, and protocolsExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeObject oriented DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.71
Rank#226  Overall
#33  Key-value stores
Score1.20
Rank#170  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score18.96
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comgithub.com/­Snapchat/­KeyDB
keydb.dev
objectbox.iospark.apache.org/­sql
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comdocs.keydb.devdocs.objectbox.iospark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.html
Developer4D, IncEQ Alpha Technology Ltd.ObjectBox LimitedApache Software Foundation
Initial release1984201920172014
Current releasev20, April 20233.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSD-3Open Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++C and C++Scala
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
LinuxAndroid
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyespartial infoSupported data types are strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets, bit arrays, hyperloglogs and geospatial indexesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyes infoby using the Redis Search moduleyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92nonoSQL-like DML and DDL statements
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
Proprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocoProprietary native APIJDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Crystal
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Fancy
Go
Haskell
Haxe
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Pascal
Perl
PHP
Prolog
Pure Data
Python
R
Rebol
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Swift
Tcl
Visual Basic
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
Java
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesLuanono
Triggersyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnoneyes, utilizing Spark Core
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
online/offline synchronization between client and servernone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Strong eventual consistency with CRDTs
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDOptimistic locking, atomic execution of commands blocks and scriptsACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoConfigurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logsyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupssimple password-based access control and ACLyesno
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4D infoformer name: 4th DimensionKeyDBObjectBoxSpark SQL
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