DBMS > 4D vs. jBASE vs. Oracle vs. SiteWhere vs. YDB

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. jBASE vs. Oracle 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

Widely used RDBMS

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

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

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Score	2.47
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	1.49
Rank	#156	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	1244.08
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational 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

www.oracle.com/database

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.oracle.com/en/database

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

ydb.tech/en/docs

Developer

4D, Inc

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Oracle

SiteWhere

Yandex

Initial release

1984

1991

1980

2010

2019

Current release

v20, April 2023

5.7

23c, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

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

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

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

yes

with proprietary extensions

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

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

HTTP REST

RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

based on HBase

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

Active-passive shard replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can be realized in PL/SQL

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

isolation level can be parameterized

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

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

Access rights defined for Yandex Cloud users

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