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DBMS > 4D vs. HBase vs. jBASE vs. SiteWhere vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. HBase vs. jBASE vs. SiteWhere vs. Trafodion

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableA robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middlewareM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series dataTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSWide column storeMultivalue DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.47
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score27.97
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score1.49
Rank#156  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#383  Overall
#43  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comhbase.apache.orgwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbasegithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewheretrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comhbase.apache.org/­book.htmldocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.htmltrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
Developer4D, IncApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetRocket Software (formerly Zumasys)SiteWhereApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release19842008199120102014
Current releasev20, April 20232.3.4, January 20215.72.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2commercialOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC++, Java
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
Linux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
AIX
Linux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-free, schema definition possibleschema-freepredefined schemeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesoptions to bring your own types, AVROoptionalyesyes
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.yesnoyesnono
Secondary indexesyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92noEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASICnoyes
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
HTTP RESTADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infoCoprocessors in JavayesJava Stored Procedures
Triggersyesyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingSharding infobased on HBaseSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseyes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonoyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)ACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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 groupsAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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