DBMS > 4D vs. jBASE vs. SAP IQ vs. SiteWhere vs. VictoriaMetrics

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. jBASE vs. SAP IQ vs. SiteWhere vs. VictoriaMetrics

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

A fast, cost-effective and scalable Time Series DBMS and monitoring solution

Primary database model

column-oriented

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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	2.64
Rank	#108	Overall
	#52	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#383	Overall
	#43	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.23
Rank	#172	Overall
	#15	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

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

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

victoriametrics.com

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

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

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

docs.victoriametrics.com
github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/wiki

Developer

4D, Inc

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

SAP, formerly Sybase

SiteWhere

VictoriaMetrics

Initial release

1984

1991

1994

2010

2018

Current release

v20, April 2023

5.7

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

v1.91, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

AIX
Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
OpenBSD

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

predefined scheme

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

Graphite protocol
InfluxDB Line Protocol
OpenTSDB
Prometheus Query API
Prometheus Remote Read/Write

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

Synchronous replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual 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

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

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