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

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

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonatoti  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  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.mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileSpatial extension of SQLite
Primary database modelRelational DBMSObject oriented DBMSRelational DBMSObject oriented DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.56
Rank#245  Overall
#10  Object oriented DBMS
Score1.27
Rank#167  Overall
#77  Relational DBMS
Score1.20
Rank#170  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score1.60
Rank#149  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comatoti.iohughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlobjectbox.iowww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­index
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comdocs.atoti.iodocs.objectbox.iowww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.html
Developer4D, IncActiveViamHughes TechnologiesObjectBox LimitedAlessandro Furieri
Initial release1984199420172008
Current releasev20, April 20234.4, October 20215.0.0, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree versions availablecommercial infofree licenses can be providedOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open 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 languageJavaCC and C++C++
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
server-less
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
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 92Multidimensional Expressions (MDX)A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersnoyes
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesPythonnonono
Triggersyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding, horizontal partitioningnonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationnoneonline/offline synchronization between client and servernone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)noyesyes
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.noyesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsnoyesno
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4D infoformer name: 4th DimensionatotimSQL infoMini SQLObjectBoxSpatiaLite
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