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DBMS > 4D vs. BigchainDB vs. Newts vs. SpaceTime vs. TigerGraph

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. BigchainDB vs. Newts vs. SpaceTime vs. TigerGraph

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  Xexclude from comparisonTigerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsTime Series DBMS based on CassandraSpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.A complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.68
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.82
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#396  Overall
#42  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#396  Overall
#8  Spatial DBMS
Score1.83
Rank#141  Overall
#13  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comwww.bigchaindb.comopennms.github.io/­newtswww.mireo.com/­spacetimewww.tigergraph.com
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.combigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestgithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wikidocs.tigergraph.com
Developer4D, IncOpenNMS GroupMireo
Initial release19842016201420202017
Current releasev20, April 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonJavaC++C++
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
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 indexesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92nonoA subset of ANSI SQL is implementedSQL-like query language (GSQL)
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP REST
Java API
RESTful HTTP APIGSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
JavaC#
C++
Python
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonoyes
Triggersyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infobased on CassandraFixed-grid hypercubes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationselectable replication factorselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraReal-time block device replication (DRBD)
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACID
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.nononono
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsyesnoyesRole-based access control

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