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DBMS > 4D vs. BigchainDB vs. BigObject vs. FeatureBase vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. BigchainDB vs. BigObject vs. FeatureBase vs. SwayDB

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonFeatureBase  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesReal-time database platform that powers real-time analytics and machine learning applications by simultaneously executing low-latency, high-throughput, and highly concurrent workloads.An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedRelational DBMSKey-value store
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Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score0.13
Rank#333  Overall
#147  Relational DBMS
Score0.22
Rank#309  Overall
#139  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Websitewww.4d.comwww.bigchaindb.combigobject.iowww.featurebase.comswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.combigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocs.bigobject.iodocs.featurebase.com
Developer4D, IncBigObject, Inc.Molecula and Pilosa Open Source ContributorsSimer Plaha
Initial release19842016201520172018
Current releasev20, April 20232022, May 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercial infofree community edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonGoScala
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
LinuxLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesno
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 indexesyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92noSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL queriesno
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Java
Python
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesLuano
Triggersyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationselectable replication factornoneyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoyesAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyes, using Linux fsyncyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsyesnono

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