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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Bangdb vs. BigchainDB vs. BoltDB vs. Heroic

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Converged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graph

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

An embedded key-value store for Go.

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
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Score	2.58
Rank	#108	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#347	Overall
	#47	Document stores
	#34	Graph DBMS
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.79
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	0.74
Rank	#220	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	0.51
Rank	#255	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

bangdb.com

www.bigchaindb.com

github.com/boltdb/bolt

github.com/spotify/heroic

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

docs.bangdb.com

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

spotify.github.io/heroic

Developer

4D, Inc

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Spotify

Initial release

1984

2012

2016

2013

2014

Current release

v20, April 2023

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD 3

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++

Python

Java

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, events

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

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

yes

via Elasticsearch

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

SQL like support with command line tool

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithm

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

selectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)

selectable replication factor

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

none

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, optimistic concurrency control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as well

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, run db with in-memory only mode

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

yes (enterprise version only)

yes

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