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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. jBASE vs. MarkLogic vs. SiteWhere vs. SQL.JS

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  Xexclude from comparisonMarkLogic  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemA robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middlewareOperational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL databaseM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series dataPort of SQLite to JavaScript
Primary database modelRelational DBMSMultivalue DBMSDocument store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store infoas of version 7
Search engine
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.47
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score1.49
Rank#156  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Score5.18
Rank#63  Overall
#11  Document stores
#1  Native XML DBMS
#1  RDF stores
#7  Search engines
Score0.06
Rank#383  Overall
#43  Time Series DBMS
Score0.63
Rank#241  Overall
#112  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbasewww.progress.com/­marklogicgithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewheresql.js.org
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comdocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9www.progress.com/­marklogic/­documentationsitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.htmlsql.js.org/­documentation/­index.html
Developer4D, IncRocket Software (formerly Zumasys)MarkLogic Corp.SiteWhereAlon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by others
Initial release19841991200120102012
Current releasev20, April 20235.711.0, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercial inforestricted free version is availableOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaJavaScript
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
AIX
Linux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-free infoSchema can be enforcedpredefined schemeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesoptionalyesyesyes
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.yesyesyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASICyes infoSQL92noyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
Java API
Node.js Client API
ODBC
proprietary Optic API infoProprietary Query API, introduced with version 9
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
WebDAV
XDBC
XQuery
XSLT
HTTP RESTJavaScript API
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesyes infovia XQuery or JavaScriptno
Triggersyesyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingSharding infobased on HBasenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyesyesselectable replication factor infobased on HBasenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infovia Hadoop Connector, HDFS Direct Access and in-database MapReduce jobsnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID infocan act as a resource manager in an XA/JTA transactionnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesno infoexcept by serializing a db to a file
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes, with Range Indexesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelRole-based access control at the document and subdocument levelsUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptno

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