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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Altibase vs. SiteWhere

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Name	4D former name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparison	Altibase  Xexclude from comparison	SiteWhere  Xexclude from comparison
Description	Application development environment with integrated database management system	An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS	M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data
Primary database model	Relational DBMS	Relational DBMS	Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 2.79 Rank #108   Overall #56   Relational DBMS	Score 0.94 Rank #181   Overall #88   Relational DBMS	Score 0.00 Rank #356   Overall #32   Time Series DBMS
Website	www.4d.com	altibase.com	sitewhere.io
Technical documentation	livedoc.4d.com	github.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manuals	sitewhere.io/­docs/­2.1.0
Developer	4D, Inc	Altibase	SiteWhere
Initial release	1984	1999	2010
Current release	v18 R5, January 2021	v7.1.0.5.3, March 2021
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial	Open Source since February 2018	Open Source Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	no	no	no
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Implementation language		C++	Java
Server operating systems	OS X Windows	AIX HP-UX Linux	Linux OS X Windows
Data scheme	yes	yes	predefined scheme
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	yes	yes	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	no	no
Secondary indexes	yes	yes	no
SQL Support of SQL	yes close to SQL 92	ANSI SQL-92	no
APIs and other access methods	ODBC RESTful HTTP API by using 4D Mobile SOAP webservices	JDBC ODBC Proprietary protocol	HTTP REST
Supported programming languages	4D proprietary IDE PHP	C C++ Java
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	yes	stored procedures and stored functions
Triggers	yes	yes
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	none	Sharding	Sharding based on HBase
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	Multi-source replication	yes	selectable replication factor based on HBase
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	no	no	no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system	Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	yes	yes	no
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	ACID	ACID	no
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes	yes	yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.	no	yes	no
User concepts Access control	Users and groups	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard	Users with fine-grained authorization concept
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	4D former name: 4th Dimension	Altibase	SiteWhere
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