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DBMS > 4D vs. jBASE vs. SiteWhere vs. TDSQL for MySQL vs. TimescaleDB

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. jBASE vs. SiteWhere vs. TDSQL for MySQL vs. TimescaleDB

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparisonTDSQL for MySQL  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemA robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middlewareM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series dataA high-performance distributed database management system with features such as automatic sharding, intelligent operation and maintenance, elastic scalability without downtime, and enterprise-grade security. It is highly compatible with MySQL.A time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSMultivalue DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.47
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score1.49
Rank#156  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#383  Overall
#43  Time Series DBMS
Score0.85
Rank#207  Overall
#97  Relational DBMS
Score4.46
Rank#71  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbasegithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewherewww.tencentcloud.com/­products/­dcdbwww.timescale.com
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comdocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.htmlwww.tencentcloud.com/­document/­product/­1042docs.timescale.com
Developer4D, IncRocket Software (formerly Zumasys)SiteWhereTencentTimescale
Initial release19841991201020132017
Current releasev20, April 20235.72.15.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaC
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
AIX
Linux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freepredefined schemeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesoptionalyesyesnumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.yesyesnonoyes
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASICnoyesyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntax
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
HTTP RESTJDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
C
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesyesuser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell
Triggersyesyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infobased on HBaseAutomatic shardingyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyesselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas info
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnonono
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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