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DBMS > 4D vs. Dragonfly vs. jBASE vs. SiteWhere vs. SQL.JS

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Dragonfly vs. jBASE vs. SiteWhere vs. SQL.JS

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemA drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instanceA robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middlewareM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series dataPort of SQLite to JavaScript
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeMultivalue DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score2.47
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#261  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
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.comgithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
www.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbasegithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewheresql.js.org
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comwww.dragonflydb.io/­docsdocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.htmlsql.js.org/­documentation/­index.html
Developer4D, IncDragonflyDB team and community contributorsRocket Software (formerly Zumasys)SiteWhereAlon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by others
Initial release19842023199120102012
Current releasev20, April 20231.0, March 20235.7
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSL 1.1commercialOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaJavaScript
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
LinuxAIX
Linux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyesscheme-freeschema-freepredefined schemeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesstrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysoptionalyesyes
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 indexesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92noEmbedded 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
Proprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
HTTP RESTJavaScript API
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
C
C#
C++
Clojure
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Tcl
.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesLuayesno
Triggersyespublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalityyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infobased on HBasenone
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 ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, strict serializability by the serveryesyes
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 groupsPassword-based authenticationAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptno

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