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DBMS > 4D vs. ObjectBox vs. Prometheus vs. SpatiaLite

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. ObjectBox vs. Prometheus vs. SpatiaLite

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemLightweight, fast on-device database for IoT, Mobile and Embedded devices, persisting and synchronising objects and vectorsOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemSpatial extension of SQLite
Primary database modelRelational DBMSObject oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS
Time Series DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.47
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score1.29
Rank#166  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
#7  Vector DBMS
Score7.69
Rank#50  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
Score1.63
Rank#146  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comgithub.com/­objectbox
objectbox.io
prometheus.iowww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­index
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comdocs.objectbox.ioprometheus.io/­docswww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.html
Developer4D, IncObjectBox LimitedAlessandro Furieri
Initial release1984201720152008
Current releasev20, April 20234.0 (May 2024)5.0.0, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialBindings are released under Apache 2.0 infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC and C++GoC++
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
Android
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows
Linux
Windows
server-less
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes, plus "flex" map-like typesNumeric data onlyyes
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.yesnono infoImport of XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92nonoyes
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
Proprietary native APIRESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
C
C++
Dart (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonono
Triggersyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationData sync between devices allowing occasional connected databases to work completely offlineyes infoby Federationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsyesnono
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