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DBMS > 4D vs. BigchainDB vs. BoltDB vs. Heroic vs. SQL.JS

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. BigchainDB vs. BoltDB vs. Heroic vs. SQL.JS

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

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

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	2.68
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.82
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	0.76
Rank	#224	Overall
	#32	Key-value stores

Score	0.57
Rank	#250	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.57
Rank	#248	Overall
	#114	Relational DBMS

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

github.com/boltdb/bolt

github.com/spotify/heroic

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

spotify.github.io/heroic

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

Developer

4D, Inc

Spotify

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Initial release

1984

2016

2013

2014

2012

Current release

v20, April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

no

no

no

no

no

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Python

Go

Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

schema-free

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

no

no

yes

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

no

no

no

no

Secondary indexes

yes

no

yes

via Elasticsearch

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

no

no

no

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

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

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

Go

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

no

no

no

Triggers

yes

no

no

no

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

selectable replication factor

none

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

no

no

no

no

no

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

no

no

no

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

no

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes

yes

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

yes

no

except by serializing a db to a file

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

no

no

no

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

yes

no

no

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