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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. EventStoreDB vs. searchxml vs. SiteWhere vs. Speedb

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Industrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

An embeddable, high performance key-value store optimized for write-intensive workloads, which can be used as a drop-in replacement for RocksDB

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Event Store

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

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Trend Chart

Score	2.47
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	1.19
Rank	#173	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

Score	0.03
Rank	#390	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Score	0.06
Rank	#383	Overall
	#43	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.26
Rank	#310	Overall
	#45	Key-value stores

Website

www.4d.com

www.eventstore.com

www.searchxml.net/category/products

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

www.speedb.io

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

developers.eventstore.com

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

Developer

4D, Inc

Event Store Limited

informationpartners gmbh

SiteWhere

Speedb

Initial release

1984

2012

2015

2010

2020

Current release

v20, April 2023

21.2, February 2021

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0; commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

predefined scheme

schema-free

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

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

on the application server

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on HBase

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

yes

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

multiple readers, single writer

yes

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

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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