DBMS > 4D vs. Lovefield vs. Manticore Search vs. ObjectBox vs. SpatiaLite

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Lovefield vs. Manticore Search vs. ObjectBox vs. SpatiaLite

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.

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

Spatial extension of SQLite

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Object oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	2.37
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.22
Rank	#306	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#301	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	1.08
Rank	#179	Overall
	#6	Object oriented DBMS
	#9	Vector DBMS

Score	1.56
Rank	#142	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

google.github.io/lovefield

manticoresearch.com

github.com/objectbox
objectbox.io

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

manual.manticoresearch.com

docs.objectbox.io

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

Developer

4D, Inc

Google

Manticore Software

ObjectBox Limited

Alessandro Furieri

Initial release

1984

2014

2017

2008

Current release

v20, April 2023

2.1.12, February 2017

6.0, February 2023

4.0 (May 2024)

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL version 2

Bindings are released under Apache 2.0

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Android
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

yes

Fixed schema

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Int, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Boolean

yes, plus "flex" map-like types

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

Can index from XML

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL

Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

JavaScript

Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Using read-only observers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

none

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

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

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

yes

isolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

using MemoryDB

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

yes

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24 July 2024

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18 June 2024

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29 May 2024

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