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DBMS > 4D vs. Brytlyt vs. jBASE vs. SiteWhere vs. Sphinx

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Brytlyt vs. jBASE vs. SiteWhere vs. Sphinx

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonBrytlyt  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemScalable GPU-accelerated RDBMS for very fast analytic and streaming workloads, leveraging PostgreSQLA robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middlewareM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series dataOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSMultivalue DBMSTime Series DBMSSearch engine
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Score2.47
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.38
Rank#276  Overall
#127  Relational DBMS
Score1.49
Rank#156  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#383  Overall
#43  Time Series DBMS
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitewww.4d.combrytlyt.iowww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbasegithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewheresphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comdocs.brytlyt.iodocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.htmlsphinxsearch.com/­docs
Developer4D, IncBrytlytRocket Software (formerly Zumasys)SiteWhereSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release19842016199120102001
Current releasev20, April 20235.0, August 20235.73.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC, C++ and CUDAJavaC++
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
AIX
Linux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freepredefined schemeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesoptionalyesno
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.yesyes infospecific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.yesno
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92yesEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASICnoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
HTTP RESTProprietary protocol
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
Python
Tcl
.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functions infoin PL/pgSQLyesno
Triggersyesyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infobased on HBaseSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationSource-replica replicationyesselectable replication factor infobased on HBasenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptno

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