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DBMS > 4D vs. Badger vs. BigchainDB vs. Kinetica vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Badger vs. BigchainDB vs. Kinetica vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonBadger  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonSAP Advantage Database Server infoformer name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparison
SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
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 assetsFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsLow-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#331  Overall
#49  Key-value stores
Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score0.64
Rank#236  Overall
#109  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comgithub.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerwww.bigchaindb.comwww.kinetica.comwww.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comgodoc.org/­github.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocs.kinetica.com
Developer4D, IncDGraph LabsKineticaSybase, SAP
Initial release19842017201620121993
Current releasev20, April 20237.1, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoAGPL v3commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoPythonC, C++
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinuxLinux
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
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 indexesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92nonoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
GoGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Delphi
Perl
PHP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnouser defined functionsyes
Triggersyesnoyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationnoneselectable replication factorSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication infoCONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACID
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.nonoyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMno infocaching of (temporary) tables can be configured
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsnoyesAccess rights for users and roles on table levelfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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