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DBMS > 4D vs. atoti vs. ObjectBox vs. RDFox vs. SpatiaLite

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

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonatoti  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonRDFox  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemAn in-memory DBMS combining transactional and analytical processing to handle the aggregation of ever-changing data.Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileHigh performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engineSpatial extension of SQLite
Primary database modelRelational DBMSObject oriented DBMSObject oriented DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Spatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.56
Rank#245  Overall
#10  Object oriented DBMS
Score1.20
Rank#170  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.23
Rank#308  Overall
#25  Graph DBMS
#14  RDF stores
Score1.60
Rank#149  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comatoti.ioobjectbox.iowww.oxfordsemantic.techwww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­index
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comdocs.atoti.iodocs.objectbox.iodocs.oxfordsemantic.techwww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.html
Developer4D, IncActiveViamObjectBox LimitedOxford Semantic TechnologiesAlessandro Furieri
Initial release1984201720172008
Current releasev20, April 20236.0, Septermber 20225.0.0, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree versions availableOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercialOpen Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++C++C++
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
server-less
Data schemeyesyesyes infoRDF schemasyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92Multidimensional Expressions (MDX)nonoyes
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
Proprietary native APIRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
C
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesPythonnono
Triggersyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding, horizontal partitioningnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationonline/offline synchronization between client and serverreplication via a shared file systemnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
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.noyesnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsyesRoles, resources, and access typesno
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4D infoformer name: 4th DimensionatotiObjectBoxRDFoxSpatiaLite
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