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DBMS > 4D vs. BigchainDB vs. GeoSpock vs. Hyprcubd vs. PostGIS

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. BigchainDB vs. GeoSpock vs. Hyprcubd vs. PostGIS

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonHyprcubd  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.Hyprcubd seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsSpatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleServerless Time Series DBMSSpatial extension of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score2.47
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comwww.bigchaindb.comgeospock.comhyprcubd.com (offline)postgis.net
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.combigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestpostgis.net/­documentation
Developer4D, IncGeoSpockHyprcubd, Inc.
Initial release198420162005
Current releasev20, April 20232.0, September 20193.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesyesno
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Implementation languagePythonJava, JavascriptGoC
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
Linuxhostedhosted
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes infotime, int, uint, float, stringyes
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.yesnononoyes
Secondary indexesyestemporal, categoricalnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92noANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)SQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
JDBCgRPC (https)
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonouser defined functions
Triggersyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingAutomatic shardingyes infobased on PostgreSQL
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationselectable replication factoryes infobased on PostgreSQL
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesnoyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononono
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsyesAccess rights for users can be defined per tabletoken accessyes infobased on PostgreSQL

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