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DBMS > 4D vs. BigchainDB vs. KeyDB vs. searchxml vs. SpaceTime

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. BigchainDB vs. KeyDB vs. searchxml vs. SpaceTime

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonKeyDB  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsAn ultra-fast, open source Key-value store fully compatible with Redis API, modules, and protocolsDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application serverSpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeKey-value storeNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Spatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score0.71
Rank#226  Overall
#33  Key-value stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#25  Search engines
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comwww.bigchaindb.comgithub.com/­Snapchat/­KeyDB
keydb.dev
www.searchxml.net/­category/­productswww.mireo.com/­spacetime
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.combigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocs.keydb.devwww.searchxml.net/­support/­handouts
Developer4D, IncEQ Alpha Technology Ltd.informationpartners gmbhMireo
Initial release19842016201920152020
Current releasev20, April 20231.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoBSD-3commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonC++C++C++
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
LinuxLinuxWindowsLinux
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnopartial infoSupported data types are strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets, bit arrays, hyperloglogs and geospatial indexesyesyes
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.yesnonoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyes infoby using the Redis Search moduleyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92nononoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocoRESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Crystal
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Fancy
Go
Haskell
Haxe
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Pascal
Perl
PHP
Prolog
Pure Data
Python
R
Rebol
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Swift
Tcl
Visual Basic
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIsC#
C++
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesLuayes infoon the application serverno
Triggersyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingnoneFixed-grid hypercubes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationselectable replication factorMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes infosychronisation to multiple collectionsReal-time block device replication (DRBD)
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Strong eventual consistency with CRDTs
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDOptimistic locking, atomic execution of commands blocks and scriptsmultiple readers, single writerno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByes infoConfigurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logsyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsyessimple password-based access control and ACLDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application servicesyes

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