DBMS > 4D vs. FeatureBase vs. jBASE vs. Realm vs. SiteWhere

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. FeatureBase vs. jBASE vs. Realm vs. SiteWhere

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Real-time database platform that powers real-time analytics and machine learning applications by simultaneously executing low-latency, high-throughput, and highly concurrent workloads.

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Primary database model

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Score	2.47
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.31
Rank	#292	Overall
	#135	Relational DBMS

Score	1.49
Rank	#156	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	7.41
Rank	#52	Overall
	#8	Document stores

Score	0.06
Rank	#383	Overall
	#43	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

www.featurebase.com

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

realm.io

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

docs.featurebase.com

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

realm.io/docs

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

Developer

4D, Inc

Molecula and Pilosa Open Source Contributors

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

SiteWhere

Initial release

1984

2017

1991

2014

2010

Current release

v20, April 2023

2022, May 2022

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

Linux
macOS

AIX
Linux
Windows

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

SQL queries

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

gRPC
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

Java
Python

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

Triggers

yes

Change Listeners

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

yes

none

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

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, using Linux fsync

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

In-Memory realm

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

yes

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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