DBMS > 4D vs. jBASE vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. SiteWhere vs. YottaDB

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. jBASE vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. SiteWhere vs. YottaDB

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

The SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMS

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

A fast and solid embedded Key-value store

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with Boeing's Spatial Query Server

Relational DBMS

using the Octo plugin

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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	35.09
Rank	#25	Overall
	#17	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#383	Overall
	#43	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.28
Rank	#306	Overall
	#44	Key-value stores

Website

www.4d.com

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

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-ase.html

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

yottadb.com

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

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

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_ASE

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

yottadb.com/resources/documentation

Developer

4D, Inc

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

SAP, Sybase

SiteWhere

YottaDB, LLC

Initial release

1984

1991

1987

2010

2001

Current release

v20, April 2023

5.7

16.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Open Source

AGPL 3.0

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
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Docker
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

predefined scheme

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

by using the Octo plugin

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

HTTP REST

PostgreSQL wire protocol

using the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java and Transact-SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

based on HBase

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

yes

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

optimistic locking

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

Users and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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