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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Altibase vs. ArcadeDB vs. SiteWhere vs. Splice Machine

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

Fast and scalable multi-model DBMS, originally forked from OrientDB but most of the code has been rewritten

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Open-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Time Series DBMS

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Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	2.58
Rank	#108	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	1.07
Rank	#186	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	0.02
Rank	#366	Overall
	#50	Document stores
	#38	Graph DBMS
	#53	Key-value stores
	#36	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#356	Overall
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.54
Rank	#250	Overall
	#114	Relational DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

altibase.com

arcadedb.com

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

splicemachine.com

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

github.com/ALTIBASE/Documents/tree/master/Manuals

docs.arcadedb.com

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

splicemachine.com/how-it-works

Developer

4D, Inc

Altibase

Arcade Data

SiteWhere

Splice Machine

Initial release

1984

1999

2021

2010

2014

Current release

v20, April 2023

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

September 2021

3.1, March 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Open Source

AGPL 3.0, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

predefined scheme

yes

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

ANSI SQL-92

SQL-like query language, no joins

yes

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

JDBC
MongoDB API
OpenCypher
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Redis API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
TinkerPop Gremlin

HTTP REST

JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

C
C++
Java

Java

C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

stored procedures and stored functions

yes

Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on HBase

Shared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Yes, via Full Spark Integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationship in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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