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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. FatDB vs. Oracle Coherence 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.

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

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Score	2.58
Rank	#108	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	1.92
Rank	#130	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Score	0.06
Rank	#356	Overall
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

Developer

4D, Inc

FatCloud

Oracle

SiteWhere

Initial release

1984

2012

2007

2010

Current release

v20, April 2023

14.1, August 2023

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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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

predefined scheme

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

Via inetgration in SQL Server

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

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

.Net
C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

via applications

Triggers

yes

via applications

yes

Live Events

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

selectable replication factor

yes, with selectable consistency level

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

configurable

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optionally

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

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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