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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Amazon Aurora vs. BigchainDB vs. BigObject

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

MySQL and PostgreSQL compatible cloud service by Amazon

BigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assets

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	2.58
Rank	#108	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	7.91
Rank	#50	Overall
	#32	Relational DBMS

Score	0.79
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	0.13
Rank	#333	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora

www.bigchaindb.com

bigobject.io

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/AuroraUserGuide/CHAP_Aurora.html

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

docs.bigobject.io

Developer

4D, Inc

Amazon

BigObject, Inc.

Initial release

1984

2015

2016

2015

Current release

v20, April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

free community edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Python

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Lua

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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