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DBMS > 4D vs. MonetDB vs. ObjectBox vs. SpatiaLite vs. TimesTen

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. MonetDB vs. ObjectBox vs. SpatiaLite vs. TimesTen

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparisonTimesTen  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemA relational database management system that stores data in columnsExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileSpatial extension of SQLiteIn-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSObject oriented DBMSSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.68
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#148  Overall
#68  Relational DBMS
Score1.22
Rank#172  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#149  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Score1.35
Rank#165  Overall
#75  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comwww.monetdb.orgobjectbox.iowww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­indexwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­timesten.html
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comwww.monetdb.org/­Documentationdocs.objectbox.iowww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.htmldocs.oracle.com/­database/­timesten-18.1
Developer4D, IncMonetDB BVObjectBox LimitedAlessandro FurieriOracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP infooriginally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005
Initial release19842004201720081998
Current releasev20, April 2023Dec2023 (11.49), December 20235.0.0, August 202011 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0Open Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCC and C++C++
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
server-lessAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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 indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92yes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsnoyesyes
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
JDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
Proprietary native APIJDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
C
C++
Java
PL/SQL
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes, in SQL, C, RnonoPL/SQL
Triggersyesyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding via remote tablesnonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationnone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusonline/offline synchronization between client and servernoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoby means of logfiles and checkpoints
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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