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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Blueflood vs. Derby vs. Machbase Neo

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

Primary database model

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Score	2.47
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#346	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.60
Rank	#70	Overall
	#38	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#337	Overall
	#30	Time Series DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

db.apache.org/derby/manuals/index.html

machbase.com/dbms

Developer

4D, Inc

Rackspace

Apache Software Foundation

Machbase

Initial release

1984

2013

1997

2013

Current release

v20, April 2023

10.17.1.0, November 2023

V8.0, August 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

free test version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

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

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

HTTP REST

JDBC

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

Java

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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

volatile and lookup table

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple password-based access control

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