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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. BigchainDB vs. KairosDB vs. StarRocks vs. Valentina Server

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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

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

An open source, high-performance columnar analytical database that enables real-time, multi-dimensional, and highly concurrent data analytics

Forked from Apache Doris

Object-relational database and reports server

Primary database model

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	0.62
Rank	#239	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.04
Rank	#189	Overall
	#88	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#327	Overall
	#145	Relational DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

www.bigchaindb.com

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

www.starrocks.io

www.valentina-db.net

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

kairosdb.github.io

docs.starrocks.io/en-us/latest/introduction/StarRocks_intro

valentina-db.com/docs/dokuwiki/v5/doku.php

Developer

4D, Inc

The Linux Foundation

since Feb 2023

Paradigma Software

Initial release

1984

2016

2013

2020

1999

Current release

v20, April 2023

1.2.2, November 2018

2.5.3, March 2023

5.7.5

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

Java

C++, Java

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

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

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

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

JDBC
MySQL protocol

ODBC

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Java

.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

horizontal partitioning (by range and hash)

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

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

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

yes

simple password-based access control

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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