DBMS > 4D vs. jBASE vs. RocksDB vs. SiteWhere vs. SpaceTime

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. jBASE vs. RocksDB vs. SiteWhere vs. SpaceTime

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	2.13
Rank	#114	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	1.39
Rank	#154	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	2.96
Rank	#89	Overall
	#13	Key-value stores

Score	0.06
Rank	#350	Overall
	#32	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#386	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

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

rocksdb.org

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

www.mireo.com/spacetime

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

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

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

Developer

4D, Inc

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Facebook, Inc.

SiteWhere

Mireo

Initial release

1984

1991

2013

2010

2020

Current release

v20, April 2023

5.7

9.4.0, June 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

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

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

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

C++ API
Java API

HTTP REST

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

based on HBase

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

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

yes

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

yes

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