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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. BigchainDB vs. Heroic vs. IBM Db2 vs. PostGIS

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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

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

Common in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/Linux

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Since Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDB

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

in Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS

with Db2 Spatial Extender

Relational DBMS

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Score	2.37
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.76
Rank	#216	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	0.13
Rank	#335	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	123.05
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	20.16
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

www.bigchaindb.com

github.com/spotify/heroic

www.ibm.com/products/db2

postgis.net

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

spotify.github.io/heroic

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2

postgis.net/documentation

Developer

4D, Inc

Spotify

IBM

Initial release

1984

2016

2014

1983

host version

2005

Current release

v20, April 2023

12.1, October 2016

3.4.2, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free version is available

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Data scheme

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

via Elasticsearch

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

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries

MongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

only with Windows/Unix/Linux Version

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

selectable replication factor

yes

with separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)

yes

based on PostgreSQL

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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.

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

based on PostgreSQL

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