DBMS > 4D vs. Hazelcast vs. jBASE vs. Riak TS vs. SiteWhere

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Hazelcast vs. jBASE vs. Riak TS vs. SiteWhere

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

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Score	2.47
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	5.46
Rank	#61	Overall
	#7	Key-value stores

Score	1.49
Rank	#156	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.28
Rank	#307	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#383	Overall
	#43	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

hazelcast.com

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

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

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

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

Developer

4D, Inc

Hazelcast

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

SiteWhere

Initial release

1984

2008

1991

2015

2010

Current release

v20, April 2023

5.3.6, November 2023

5.7

3.0.0, September 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

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

Erlang

Java

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

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

the object must implement a serialization strategy

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

SQL-like query language

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

yes, limited

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

yes

Erlang

Triggers

yes

Events

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

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

yes

Replicated Map

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

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user

Raft Consensus Algorithm

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between datasets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

one or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commited

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

Role-based access control

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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