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DBMS > 4D vs. Apache Phoenix vs. jBASE vs. SiteWhere vs. SQL.JS

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Apache Phoenix vs. jBASE vs. SiteWhere vs. SQL.JS

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  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 middlewareM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series dataPort of SQLite to JavaScript
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSMultivalue DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational 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
Score0.06
Rank#383  Overall
#43  Time Series DBMS
Score0.63
Rank#241  Overall
#112  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comphoenix.apache.orgwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbasegithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewheresql.js.org
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comphoenix.apache.orgdocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.htmlsql.js.org/­documentation/­index.html
Developer4D, IncApache Software FoundationRocket Software (formerly Zumasys)SiteWhereAlon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by others
Initial release19842014199120102012
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 infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJavaScript
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
Linux
Unix
Windows
AIX
Linux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyesyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesschema-freepredefined schemeyes
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 indexesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92yesEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASICnoyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
JDBCJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
HTTP RESTJavaScript API
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
C
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsyesno
Triggersyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingSharding infobased on HBasenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesselectable replication factor infobased on HBasenone
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 Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesno infoexcept by serializing a db to a file
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesnoyes
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 levelUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptno

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