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DBMS > 4D vs. AgensGraph vs. BigchainDB vs. dBASE vs. Splunk

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. AgensGraph vs. BigchainDB vs. dBASE vs. Splunk

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonAgensGraph  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisondBASE  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemMulti-model database supporting relational and graph data models and built upon PostgreSQLBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsdBase was one of the first databases with a development environment on PC's. Its latest version dBase V is still sold as dBase classic, which needs a DOS Emulation. The up-to-date product is dBase plus.Analytics Platform for Big Data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Document storeRelational DBMSSearch engine
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Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.20
Rank#321  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
#143  Relational DBMS
Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score10.34
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score86.45
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Websitewww.4d.combitnine.net/­agensgraphwww.bigchaindb.comwww.dbase.comwww.splunk.com
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.combitnine.net/­documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasedocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunk
Developer4D, IncBitnine Global Inc.Asthon TateSplunk Inc.
Initial release19842016201619792003
Current releasev20, April 20232.1, December 2018dBASE 2019, 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoAGPL v3commercialcommercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCPython
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesdepending on used data modelschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes
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.yesnonoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92yesnonono infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commands
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
Cypher Query Language
JDBC
CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
none infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.HTTP REST
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
C
Java
JavaScript
Python
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
dBase proprietary IDEC#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.yes
Triggersyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneno, but can be realized using table inheritanceShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationSource-replica replicationselectable replication factornoneMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDno infonot for dBase internal data, but IDE does support transactions when accessing external DBMSno infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesAccess rights for users and rolesAccess rights for users and roles

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