DBMS > 4D vs. jBASE vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. SiteWhere vs. SpatiaLite

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. jBASE vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. SiteWhere vs. SpatiaLite

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

A drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Spatial extension of SQLite

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational 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	0.60
Rank	#246	Overall
	#39	Document stores

Score	0.06
Rank	#383	Overall
	#43	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.63
Rank	#146	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

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

www.percona.com/mongodb/software/percona-server-for-mongodb

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

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

docs.percona.com/percona-distribution-for-mongodb

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

Developer

4D, Inc

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Percona

SiteWhere

Alessandro Furieri

Initial release

1984

1991

2015

2010

2008

Current release

v20, April 2023

5.7

3.4.10-2.10, November 2017

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL Version 2

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

predefined scheme

yes

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

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 protocol using JSON

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on HBase

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

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

via In-Memory Engine

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Access rights for users and roles

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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