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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. jBASE vs. OpenMLDB vs. RethinkDB 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

An open-source machine learning database that provides a feature platform for training and inference

DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	2.47
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	1.49
Rank	#156	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#359	Overall
	#36	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.66
Rank	#107	Overall
	#20	Document stores

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

openmldb.ai

rethinkdb.com

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

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

openmldb.ai/docs/zh/main

rethinkdb.com/docs

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

Developer

4D, Inc

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

4 Paradigm Inc.

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

SiteWhere

Initial release

1984

1991

2020

2009

2010

Current release

v20, April 2023

5.7

2024-2 February 2024

2.4.1, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++, Java, Scala

C++

Java

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Fixed schema

schema-free

predefined scheme

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

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

JDBC
SQLAlchemy

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala

community-supported driver
C#

community-supported driver
C++

community-supported driver
Clojure

community-supported driver
Dart

community-supported driver
Erlang

community-supported driver
Go

community-supported driver
Haskell

community-supported driver
Java

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js)

official driver
Lisp

community-supported driver
Lua

community-supported driver
Objective-C

community-supported driver
Perl

community-supported driver
PHP

community-supported driver
Python

official driver
Ruby

official driver
Scala

community-supported driver

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

range based

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

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

Atomic single-document operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC based

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 and table-level permissions

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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