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DBMS > 4D vs. BigchainDB vs. Heroic vs. Neo4j vs. PostGIS

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. BigchainDB vs. Heroic vs. Neo4j vs. PostGIS

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonNeo4j  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchScalable, ACID-compliant graph database designed with a high-performance distributed cluster architecture, available in self-hosted and cloud offeringsSpatial extension of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMSGraph DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score44.46
Rank#23  Overall
#1  Graph DBMS
Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comwww.bigchaindb.comgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicneo4j.compostgis.net
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.combigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestspotify.github.io/­heroicneo4j.com/­docspostgis.net/­documentation
Developer4D, IncSpotifyNeo4j, Inc.
Initial release19842016201420072005
Current releasev20, April 20235.19, April 20243.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL version3, commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoGPL v2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonJavaJava, ScalaC
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
LinuxLinux infoCan also be used server-less as embedded Java database.
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free and schema-optionalyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesyes
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.yesnonoyes
Secondary indexesyesyes infovia Elasticsearchyes infopluggable indexing subsystem, by default Apache Luceneyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92nononoyes
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
Bolt protocol
Cypher query language
Java API
Neo4j-OGM infoObject Graph Mapper
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data Neo4j
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
.Net
Clojure
Elixir
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyes infoUser defined Procedures and Functionsuser defined functions
Triggersyesnoyes infovia event handleryes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingyes using Neo4j Fabricyes infobased on PostgreSQL
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationselectable replication factoryesCausal Clustering using Raft protocol infoavailable in in Enterprise Version onlyyes infobased on PostgreSQL
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Causal and Eventual Consistency configurable in Causal Cluster setup
Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes infoRelationships in graphsyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsyesUsers, roles and permissions. Pluggable authentication with supported standards (LDAP, Active Directory, Kerberos)yes infobased on PostgreSQL
More information provided by the system vendor
4D infoformer name: 4th DimensionBigchainDBHeroicNeo4jPostGIS
Specific characteristicsNeo4j delivers graph technology that has been battle tested for performance and scale...
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Competitive advantagesNeo4j is the market leader, graph database category creator, and the most widely...
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Typical application scenariosReal-Time Recommendations Master Data Management Identity and Access Management Network...
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Key customersOver 800 commercial customers and over 4300 startups use Neo4j. Flagship customers...
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Market metricsNeo4j boasts the world's largest graph database ecosystem with more than 140 million...
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Licensing and pricing modelsGPL v3 license that can be used all the places where you might use MySQL. Neo4j Commercial...
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