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DBMS > 4D vs. BigchainDB vs. EXASOL vs. XTDB

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. BigchainDB vs. EXASOL vs. XTDB

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.37
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.76
Rank#216  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score1.66
Rank#138  Overall
#64  Relational DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#330  Overall
#45  Document stores
Websitewww.4d.comwww.bigchaindb.comwww.exasol.comgithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.combigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestwww.exasol.com/­resourceswww.xtdb.com/­docs
Developer4D, IncExasolJuxt Ltd.
Initial release1984201620002019
Current releasev20, April 20231.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercialOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languagePythonClojure
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
LinuxAll OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes, extensible-data-notation format
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
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92noyeslimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
HTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Java
Lua
Python
R
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsno
Triggersyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationselectable replication factoryes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infoHadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsyesAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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