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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. jBASE vs. KeyDB vs. SiteWhere

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

An ultra-fast, open source Key-value store fully compatible with Redis API, modules, and protocols

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Primary database model

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Score	2.68
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	1.43
Rank	#160	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.80
Rank	#219	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	0.06
Rank	#367	Overall
	#36	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

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

github.com/Snapchat/KeyDB
keydb.dev

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

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

docs.keydb.dev

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

Developer

4D, Inc

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

EQ Alpha Technology Ltd.

SiteWhere

Initial release

1984

1991

2019

2010

Current release

v20, April 2023

5.7

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD-3

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

predefined scheme

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

partial

Supported data types are strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets, bit arrays, hyperloglogs and geospatial indexes

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

by using the Redis Search module

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

Proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protoco

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Crystal
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Fancy
Go
Haskell
Haxe
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Pascal
Perl
PHP
Prolog
Pure Data
Python
R
Rebol
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Swift
Tcl
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Lua

Triggers

yes

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

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

Eventual Consistency
Strong eventual consistency with CRDTs

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Optimistic locking, atomic execution of commands blocks and scripts

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Configurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logs

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

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

simple password-based access control and ACL

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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