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DBMS > 4D vs. Amazon Aurora vs. BigchainDB vs. BoltDB vs. Heroic

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Amazon Aurora vs. BigchainDB vs. BoltDB vs. Heroic

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon Aurora  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemMySQL and PostgreSQL compatible cloud service by AmazonBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsAn embedded key-value store for Go.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeKey-value storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
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Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score7.91
Rank#50  Overall
#32  Relational DBMS
Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comaws.amazon.com/­rds/­aurorawww.bigchaindb.comgithub.com/­boltdb/­boltgithub.com/­spotify/­heroic
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comdocs.aws.amazon.com/­AmazonRDS/­latest/­AuroraUserGuide/­CHAP_Aurora.htmlbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestspotify.github.io/­heroic
Developer4D, IncAmazonSpotify
Initial release19842015201620132014
Current releasev20, April 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languagePythonGoJava
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
hostedLinuxBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnonoyes
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.yesyesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes infovia Elasticsearch
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92yesnonono
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
Supported programming languages4D 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
Go
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesnono
Triggersyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioningShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationSource-replica replicationselectable replication factornoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDyesno
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.noyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesno

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