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DBMS > 4D vs. Faircom EDGE vs. jBASE vs. Pinecone vs. SiteWhere

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Faircom EDGE vs. jBASE vs. Pinecone vs. SiteWhere

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonFaircom EDGE infoformerly c-treeEDGE  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemFairCom EDGE is an Industry 4.0 solution built to integrate, collect, aggregate and synchronize mission-critical data in edge computing environmentsA robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middlewareA managed, cloud-native vector databaseM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Multivalue DBMSVector DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.47
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.09
Rank#362  Overall
#53  Key-value stores
#155  Relational DBMS
Score1.49
Rank#156  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Score3.23
Rank#92  Overall
#2  Vector DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#383  Overall
#43  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comwww.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-edgewww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbasewww.pinecone.iogithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhere
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comdocs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-23d4f1fd-d213-f6d5-b92e-9b7475baa14e.htmldocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9docs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewsitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
Developer4D, IncFairCom CorporationRocket Software (formerly Zumasys)Pinecone Systems, IncSiteWhere
Initial release19841979199120192010
Current releasev20, April 2023V3, October 20205.7
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoRestricted, free version availablecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageANSI C, C++Java
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
Android
Linux infoARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows
AIX
Linux
Windows
hostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)schema-freepredefined scheme
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL TypesoptionalString, Number, Booleanyes
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.yesyesyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92yes infoANSI SQL queriesEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASICnono
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
ADO.NET
Direct SQL
IoT Microservice layer
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
RESTful HTTP APIHTTP REST
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
VB.Net
.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes info.Net, JavaScript, C/C++yes
Triggersyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneFile partitioning infoCustomizable business rules for partitioningShardingSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyes infoSynchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logsyesselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes infowhen using SQLnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoacross SQL and NoSQLyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsFine grained user, group and file access rights managed across SQL (per ANSI standard) and NoSQL.Access rights can be defined down to the item levelUsers with fine-grained authorization concept

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