DBMS > 4D vs. BigchainDB vs. HEAVY.AI vs. KairosDB vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. BigchainDB vs. HEAVY.AI vs. KairosDB vs. RocksDB

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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

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	2.47
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.85
Rank	#208	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	1.64
Rank	#145	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Score	0.67
Rank	#233	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

www.4d.com

www.bigchaindb.com

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

docs.heavy.ai

kairosdb.github.io

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

4D, Inc

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

1984

2016

2013

Current release

v20, April 2023

5.10, January 2022

1.2.2, November 2018

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

C++ and CUDA

Java

C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Round robin

Sharding

based on Cassandra

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple password-based access control

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