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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. jBASE vs. ObjectBox vs. SiteWhere vs. YDB

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

A distributed fault-tolerant database service, with high availability, scalability, immediate consistency and ACID transactions and providing an Amazon DynamoDB compatible API

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	2.47
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	1.49
Rank	#156	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	1.29
Rank	#166	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#383	Overall
	#43	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.33
Rank	#287	Overall
	#43	Document stores
	#132	Relational DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

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

objectbox.io

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

github.com/ydb-platform/ydb
ydb.tech

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

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

docs.objectbox.io

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

ydb.tech/en/docs

Developer

4D, Inc

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

ObjectBox Limited

SiteWhere

Yandex

Initial release

1984

1991

2017

2010

2019

Current release

v20, April 2023

5.7

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0; commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

AIX
Linux
Windows

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

predefined scheme

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

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

SQL-like query language (YQL)

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 native API

HTTP REST

RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Sharding

based on HBase

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

online/offline synchronization between client and server

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

Active-passive shard replication

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

yes

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

Access rights defined for Yandex Cloud users

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