DBMS > 4D vs. Drizzle vs. jBASE vs. openGemini vs. SiteWhere

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Drizzle vs. jBASE vs. openGemini vs. SiteWhere

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Name

Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

MySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

An open source distributed Time Series DBMS with high concurrency, high performance, and high scalability

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	2.47
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	1.49
Rank	#156	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.09
Rank	#361	Overall
	#37	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#383	Overall
	#43	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

www.opengemini.org
github.com/openGemini

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

docs.opengemini.org/guide

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

Developer

4D, Inc

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Huawei and openGemini community

SiteWhere

Initial release

1984

2008

1991

2022

2010

Current release

v20, April 2023

7.2.4, September 2012

5.7

1.1, July 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GNU GPL

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

predefined scheme

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

Integer, Float, Boolean, String

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

with proprietary extensions

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

JDBC

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

C
C++
Java
PHP

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Administrators and common users accounts

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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