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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. ObjectBox vs. SurrealDB vs. TimesTen vs. Yanza

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Name

Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	2.58
Rank	#108	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	1.20
Rank	#170	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.86
Rank	#203	Overall
	#34	Document stores
	#18	Graph DBMS

Score	1.31
Rank	#163	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

objectbox.io

surrealdb.com

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

yanza.com

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

docs.objectbox.io

surrealdb.com/docs

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

4D, Inc

ObjectBox Limited

SurrealDB Ltd

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Yanza

Initial release

1984

2017

2022

1998

2015

Current release

v20, April 2023

v1.5.0, May 2024

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

commercial

free version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

but mainly used as a service provided by Yanza

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Rust

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

Proprietary native API

GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

any language that supports HTTP calls

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

Timer and event based

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

online/offline synchronization between client and server

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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 or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

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

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

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

yes, based on authentication and database rules

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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