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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Apache IoTDB vs. jBASE vs. searchxml vs. SiteWhere

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

An IoT native database with high performance for data management and analysis, deployable on the edge and the cloud and integrated with Hadoop, Spark and Flink

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	2.47
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	1.31
Rank	#164	Overall
	#14	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.49
Rank	#156	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#390	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Score	0.06
Rank	#383	Overall
	#43	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

iotdb.apache.org

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

www.searchxml.net/category/products

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

iotdb.apache.org/UserGuide/Master/QuickStart/QuickStart.html

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

Developer

4D, Inc

Apache Software Foundation

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

informationpartners gmbh

SiteWhere

Initial release

1984

2018

1991

2015

2010

Current release

v20, April 2023

1.1.0, April 2023

5.7

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM (>= 1.8)

AIX
Linux
Windows

Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

predefined scheme

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

JDBC
Native API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

on the application server

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning (by time range) + vertical partitioning (by deviceId)

Sharding

none

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

selectable replication methods; using Raft/IoTConsensus algorithm to ensure strong/eventual data consistency among multiple replicas

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Integration with Hadoop and Spark

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Strong Consistency with Raft

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

multiple readers, single writer

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

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

yes

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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