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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Kyligence Enterprise vs. ObjectBox vs. TerminusDB vs. TimesTen

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

A distributed analytics engine for big data, built on top of Apache Kylin

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Document store
RDF store

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Trend Chart

Score	2.58
Rank	#108	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.40
Rank	#269	Overall
	#124	Relational DBMS

Score	1.20
Rank	#170	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#325	Overall
	#29	Graph DBMS

Score	1.31
Rank	#163	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

kyligence.io/kyligence-enterprise

objectbox.io

terminusdb.com

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

docs.objectbox.io

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

4D, Inc

Kyligence, Inc.

ObjectBox Limited

DataChemist Ltd.

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

1984

2016

2017

2018

1998

Current release

v20, April 2023

11.0.0, January 2023

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

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++

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

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

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary native API

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

JavaScript
Python

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Graph Partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

online/offline synchronization between client and server

Journaling Streams

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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 journaling

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

yes

Role-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

More information provided by the system vendor

News

The first On-Device Vector Database: ObjectBox 4.0
16 May 2024

Edge AI: The era of on-device AI
23 April 2024

In-Memory Database Use Cases
15 February 2024

Data Viewer for Objects – announcing ObjectBox Admin
14 November 2023

Vector Databases for Edge AI
9 August 2023

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