DBMS > 4D vs. FatDB vs. Interbase vs. jBASE vs. SiteWhere

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. FatDB vs. Interbase vs. jBASE vs. SiteWhere

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Name

FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	2.47
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	4.08
Rank	#75	Overall
	#41	Relational DBMS

Score	1.49
Rank	#156	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#383	Overall
	#43	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

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

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

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

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

Developer

4D, Inc

FatCloud

Embarcadero

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

SiteWhere

Initial release

1984

2012

1984

1991

2010

Current release

v20, April 2023

InterBase 2020, December 2019

5.7

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Windows

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

predefined scheme

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

export as XML data possible

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

Via inetgration in SQL Server

yes

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

via applications

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

yes

Triggers

yes

via applications

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

selectable replication factor

Interbase Change Views

yes

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

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

Multiversion concurreny control

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

Can implement custom security layer via applications

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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