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DBMS > 4D vs. BigchainDB vs. MonetDB vs. SiriDB

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. BigchainDB vs. MonetDB vs. SiriDB

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonSiriDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsA relational database management system that stores data in columnsOpen Source Time Series DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score2.47
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score1.72
Rank#141  Overall
#64  Relational DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#378  Overall
#42  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comwww.bigchaindb.comwww.monetdb.orgsiridb.com
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.combigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestwww.monetdb.org/­Documentationdocs.siridb.com
Developer4D, IncMonetDB BVCesbit
Initial release1984201620042017
Current releasev20, April 2023Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0Open Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languagePythonCC
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
LinuxFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes infoNumeric data
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.yesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92noyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
HTTP API
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes, in SQL, C, Rno
Triggersyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding via remote tablesSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationselectable replication factornone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple rights management via user accounts

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