DBMS > 4D vs. jBASE vs. Linter vs. SAP HANA vs. SiteWhere

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. jBASE vs. Linter vs. SAP HANA 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

RDBMS for high security requirements

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	2.47
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	1.49
Rank	#156	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.12
Rank	#350	Overall
	#152	Relational DBMS

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#383	Overall
	#43	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

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

linter.ru

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

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

help.sap.com/hana

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

Developer

4D, Inc

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

relex.ru

SAP

SiteWhere

Initial release

1984

1991

1990

2010

Current release

v20, April 2023

5.7

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

AIX
Linux
Windows

AIX
Android
BSD
HP Open VMS
iOS
Linux
OS X
VxWorks
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

yes

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
LINQ
ODBC
OLE DB
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Ruby
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQL

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

yes

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

Source-replica replication

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

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

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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