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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. jBASE vs. MonetDB vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. SiteWhere

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Berkeley DB  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemA robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middlewareA relational database management system that stores data in columnsWidely used in-process key-value storeM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSMultivalue DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store infosupports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS infoin the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version
Time Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial 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
Score1.72
Rank#141  Overall
#64  Relational DBMS
Score2.01
Rank#126  Overall
#21  Key-value stores
#3  Native XML DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#383  Overall
#43  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbasewww.monetdb.orgwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­berkeleydb.htmlgithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhere
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comdocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9www.monetdb.org/­Documentationdocs.oracle.com/­cd/­E17076_05/­html/­index.htmlsitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
Developer4D, IncRocket Software (formerly Zumasys)MonetDB BVOracle infooriginally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by OracleSiteWhere
Initial release19841991200419942010
Current releasev20, April 20235.7Dec2023 (11.49), December 202318.1.40, May 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0Open Source infocommercial license availableOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCC, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)Java
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
AIX
Linux
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-freepredefined scheme
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesoptionalyesnoyes
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.yesyesyes infoonly with the Berkeley DB XML editionno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASICyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsyes infoSQL interfaced based on SQLite is availableno
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
JDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
HTTP REST
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
.Net infoFigaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others infoThird-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesyes, in SQL, C, Rno
Triggersyesyesyesyes infoonly for the SQL API
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding via remote tablesnoneSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyesnone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept

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