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DBMS > 4D vs. Badger vs. BigchainDB vs. Google BigQuery vs. Hawkular Metrics

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Badger vs. BigchainDB vs. Google BigQuery vs. Hawkular Metrics

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonBadger  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle BigQuery  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemAn embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.BigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsLarge scale data warehouse service with append-only tablesHawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeDocument storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.47
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.22
Rank#320  Overall
#47  Key-value stores
Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score58.10
Rank#19  Overall
#13  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#366  Overall
#39  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comgithub.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerwww.bigchaindb.comcloud.google.com/­bigquerywww.hawkular.org
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comgodoc.org/­github.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestcloud.google.com/­bigquery/­docswww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guide
Developer4D, IncDGraph LabsGoogleCommunity supported by Red Hat
Initial release19842017201620102014
Current releasev20, April 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoAGPL v3commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageGoPythonJava
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxhostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnonoyesyes
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.yesnononono
Secondary indexesyesnonono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92nonoyesno
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP REST
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
GoGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby
Go
Java
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnouser defined functions infoin JavaScriptno
Triggersyesnonoyes infovia Hawkular Alerting
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingnoneSharding infobased on Cassandra
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationnoneselectable replication factorselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandra
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnono infoSince BigQuery is designed for querying datano
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.nononono
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsnoyesAccess privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level infoGoogle Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)no

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