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DBMS > 4D vs. BigchainDB vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. SiteWhere

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. BigchainDB vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. SiteWhere

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Table Storage  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerA Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasetsM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSWide column storeTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score20.56
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score4.48
Rank#75  Overall
#6  Wide column stores
Score0.06
Rank#356  Overall
#35  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comwww.bigchaindb.comazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticsazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­storage/­tablesgithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhere
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.combigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticssitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
Developer4D, IncMicrosoftMicrosoftSiteWhere
Initial release19842016201620122010
Current releasev20, April 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercialcommercialOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesyesno
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Implementation languagePythonC++Java
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
LinuxhostedhostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-freepredefined scheme
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.yesnononono
Secondary indexesyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92noyesnono
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP APIHTTP REST
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
PHP
.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesTransact SQLno
Triggersyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding, horizontal partitioningSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationselectable replication factoryesyes infoimplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.selectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDoptimistic lockingno
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 groupsyesyesAccess rights based on private key authentication or shared access signaturesUsers with fine-grained authorization concept

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