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DBMS > 4D vs. jBASE vs. LevelDB vs. SiteWhere vs. TimescaleDB

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. jBASE vs. LevelDB vs. SiteWhere vs. TimescaleDB

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  Xexclude from comparisonLevelDB  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemA robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middlewareEmbeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string valuesM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series dataA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSMultivalue DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score2.47
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score1.49
Rank#156  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Score2.25
Rank#115  Overall
#19  Key-value stores
Score0.06
Rank#383  Overall
#43  Time Series DBMS
Score4.46
Rank#71  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbasegithub.com/­google/­leveldbgithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewherewww.timescale.com
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comdocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9github.com/­google/­leveldb/­blob/­main/­doc/­index.mdsitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.htmldocs.timescale.com
Developer4D, IncRocket Software (formerly Zumasys)GoogleSiteWhereTimescale
Initial release19841991201120102017
Current releasev20, April 20235.71.23, February 20212.15.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoBSDOpen 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 languageC++JavaC
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
AIX
Linux
Windows
Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freepredefined schemeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesoptionalnoyesnumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types
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.yesyesnonoyes
Secondary indexesyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASICnonoyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntax
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
HTTP RESTADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
C++
Go
Java info3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Python info3rd party binding
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesnouser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell
Triggersyesyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnoneSharding infobased on HBaseyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyesnoneselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseSource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas info
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infowith automatic compression on writesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelnoUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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