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

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

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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

Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.79
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	20.56
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	0.06
Rank	#356	Overall
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

www.bigchaindb.com

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

opensearch.org/docs/latest

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

Developer

4D, Inc

Microsoft

Amazon Web Services

SiteWhere

Initial release

1984

2016

2021

2010

Current release

v20, April 2023

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

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Implementation language

Python

C++

Java

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

predefined scheme

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
PHP

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transact SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

selectable replication factor

yes

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Licensing and pricing models

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