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DBMS > 4D vs. BigchainDB vs. Datastax Enterprise vs. GeoSpock vs. TimesTen

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. BigchainDB vs. Datastax Enterprise vs. GeoSpock vs. TimesTen

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonDatastax Enterprise  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonTimesTen  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 systemBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsDataStax Enterprise (DSE) is the always-on, scalable data platform built on Apache Cassandra and designed for hybrid Cloud. DSE integrates graph, search, analytics, administration, developer tooling, and monitoring into a unified platform.Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleIn-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeWide column storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Vector DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Trend Chart
Score2.68
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.82
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score6.31
Rank#57  Overall
#4  Wide column stores
Score1.35
Rank#165  Overall
#75  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comwww.bigchaindb.comwww.datastax.com/­products/­datastax-enterprisegeospock.comwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­timesten.html
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.combigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocs.datastax.comdocs.oracle.com/­database/­timesten-18.1
Developer4D, IncDataStaxGeoSpockOracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP infooriginally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005
Initial release1984201620111998
Current releasev20, April 20236.8, April 20202.0, September 201911 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languagePythonJavaJava, Javascript
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
hostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesyes
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 indexesyesyestemporal, categoricalyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92noSQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL); Spark SQLANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)yes
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocol infoCQL (Cassandra Query Language)
TinkerPop Gremlin infowith DSE Graph
JDBCJDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Java
PL/SQL
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonoPL/SQL
Triggersyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infono "single point of failure"Automatic shardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationselectable replication factorconfigurable replication factor, datacenter aware, advanced replication for edge computingMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency infoconsistency level can be individually decided with each write operation
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyes infoby means of logfiles and checkpoints
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsyesAccess rights for users can be defined per objectAccess rights for users can be defined per tablefine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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4D infoformer name: 4th DimensionBigchainDBDatastax EnterpriseGeoSpockTimesTen
Specific characteristicsDataStax Enterprise is scale-out data infrastructure for enterprises that need to...
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Competitive advantagesSupporting the following application requirements: Zero downtime - Built on Apache...
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Typical application scenariosApplications that must be massively and linearly scalable with 100% uptime and able...
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Key customersCapital One, Cisco, Comcast, eBay, McDonald's, Microsoft, Safeway, Sony, UBS, and...
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Market metricsAmong the Forbes 100 Most Innovative Companies, DataStax is trusted by 5 of the top...
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Licensing and pricing modelsAnnual subscription
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