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

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

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparisonYDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileSpatial extension of SQLiteA distributed fault-tolerant database service, with high availability, scalability, immediate consistency and ACID transactions and providing an Amazon DynamoDB compatible API
Primary database modelRelational DBMSObject oriented DBMSSpatial DBMSDocument store
Relational 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
Score1.63
Rank#146  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Score0.33
Rank#287  Overall
#43  Document stores
#132  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comobjectbox.iowww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­indexgithub.com/­ydb-platform/­ydb
ydb.tech
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comdocs.objectbox.iowww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.htmlydb.tech/­en/­docs
Developer4D, IncObjectBox LimitedAlessandro FurieriYandex
Initial release1984201720082019
Current releasev20, April 20235.0.0, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1Open Source infoApache 2.0; commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC and C++C++
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
server-lessLinux
Data schemeyesyesyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)
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.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92noyesSQL-like query language (YQL)
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
Proprietary native APIRESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
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
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonono
Triggersyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationonline/offline synchronization between client and servernoneActive-passive shard replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACID
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.nonoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsyesnoAccess rights defined for Yandex Cloud users
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4D infoformer name: 4th DimensionObjectBoxSpatiaLiteYDB
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