DBMS > 4D vs. BigchainDB vs. GeoSpock vs. IBM Cloudant vs. TimesTen

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. BigchainDB vs. GeoSpock vs. IBM Cloudant vs. TimesTen

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Name

GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

BigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assets

Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scale

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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

Score	2.58
Rank	#108	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.79
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	1.31
Rank	#163	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

www.bigchaindb.com

geospock.com

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

4D, Inc

GeoSpock

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

1984

2016

2010

1998

Current release

v20, April 2023

2.0, September 2019

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Python

Java, Javascript

Erlang

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

Secondary indexes

yes

temporal, categorical

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)

yes

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Automatic sharding

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

yes

Access rights for users can be defined per table

Access rights for users can be defined per database

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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