DBMS > 4D vs. HEAVY.AI vs. JSqlDb vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. SiteWhere

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. HEAVY.AI vs. JSqlDb vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. SiteWhere

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Name

JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	2.47
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	1.64
Rank	#145	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Score	19.93
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#383	Overall
	#43	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

jsqldb.org (offline)

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

docs.heavy.ai

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

Developer

4D, Inc

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Konrad von Backstrom

Microsoft

SiteWhere

Initial release

1984

2016

2018

2016

2010

Current release

v20, April 2023

5.10, January 2022

0.8, December 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++ and CUDA

C++

Java

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux
macOS
Windows

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

JavaScript

C#
Java
PHP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

functions in JavaScript

Transact SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Round robin

none

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

none

yes

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

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using RocksDB

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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