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DBMS > 4D vs. BigObject vs. GeoSpock vs. RRDtool vs. Tibero

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. BigObject vs. GeoSpock vs. RRDtool vs. Tibero

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparisonTibero  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesSpatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleIndustry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database. infoThe data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.A secure RDBMS, designed for easy portability from Oracle
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.68
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#342  Overall
#150  Relational DBMS
Score2.14
Rank#124  Overall
#10  Time Series DBMS
Score1.81
Rank#143  Overall
#65  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.4d.combigobject.iogeospock.comoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtoolus.tmaxsoft.com/­products/­tibero
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comdocs.bigobject.iooss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­doctechnet.tmaxsoft.com/­upload/­download/­online/­tibero/­pver-20150504-000002/­index.html
Developer4D, IncBigObject, Inc.GeoSpockTobias OetikerTmaxSoft
Initial release1984201519992003
Current releasev20, April 20232.0, September 20191.8.0, 20226, April 2015
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree community edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSScommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJava, JavascriptC infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# availableC and Assembler
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
Linux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
hostedHP-UX
Linux
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesNumeric data onlyyes
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.yesnonono infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possibleyes
Secondary indexesyesyestemporal, categoricalnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92SQL-like DML and DDL statementsANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)noyes
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBCin-process shared library
Pipes
JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Tibero CLI
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
C infowith librrd library
C# infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Java infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js) infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP infowith a wrapper library
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Java
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesLuanonoPersistent Stored Procedure (PSM)
Triggersyesnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneAutomatic shardingnonehorizontal partitioning infoby range, hash, list or composite
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationnonenoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnononoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyes infoby using the rrdcached daemonyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyesno infoplanned for next version
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsnoAccess rights for users can be defined per tablenofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard (SQL 92, SQL 99)

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