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

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

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

High performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine

Spatial extension of SQLite

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Object oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	2.37
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.22
Rank	#305	Overall
	#25	Graph DBMS
	#15	RDF stores

Score	1.56
Rank	#142	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

github.com/objectbox
objectbox.io

www.oxfordsemantic.tech

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

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

docs.objectbox.io

docs.oxfordsemantic.tech

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

Developer

4D, Inc

ObjectBox Limited

Oxford Semantic Technologies

Alessandro Furieri

Initial release

1984

2017

2008

Current release

v20, April 2023

4.0 (May 2024)

6.0, Septermber 2022

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Bindings are released under Apache 2.0

Apache License 2.0

commercial

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

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Android
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

Proprietary native API

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

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

C
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

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

replication via a shared file system

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups

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 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

Roles, resources, and access types

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News

MongoDB Realm & Device Sync alternatives – ObjectBox
17 September 2024

Local AI – what it is and why we need it
11 September 2024

First on-device Vector Database (aka Semantic Index) for iOS
24 July 2024

Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) with vector databases: Expanding AI Capabilities
18 June 2024

The on-device Vector Database for Android and Java
29 May 2024

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