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DBMS > 4D vs. Apache Phoenix vs. jBASE vs. ObjectBox vs. SiteWhere

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Apache Phoenix vs. jBASE vs. ObjectBox vs. SiteWhere

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseA robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middlewareExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSMultivalue DBMSObject oriented DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.47
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score2.06
Rank#123  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score1.49
Rank#156  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Score1.29
Rank#166  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#383  Overall
#43  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comphoenix.apache.orgwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbaseobjectbox.iogithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhere
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comphoenix.apache.orgdocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9docs.objectbox.iositewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
Developer4D, IncApache Software FoundationRocket Software (formerly Zumasys)ObjectBox LimitedSiteWhere
Initial release19842014199120172010
Current releasev20, April 20235.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 20195.7
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++Java
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
Linux
Unix
Windows
AIX
Linux
Windows
Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesschema-freeyespredefined scheme
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesoptionalyesyes
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.yesnoyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92yesEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASICnono
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
JDBCJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
Proprietary native APIHTTP REST
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
C
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsyesno
Triggersyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingnoneSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesonline/offline synchronization between client and serverselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoHadoop integrationnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancyAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelyesUsers with fine-grained authorization concept
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4D infoformer name: 4th DimensionApache PhoenixjBASEObjectBoxSiteWhere
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