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

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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

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

Analytics Platform for Big Data

A complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	2.68
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.82
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#396	Overall
	#8	Spatial DBMS

Score	88.71
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Score	1.83
Rank	#141	Overall
	#13	Graph DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

www.bigchaindb.com

www.mireo.com/spacetime

www.splunk.com

www.tigergraph.com

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

docs.tigergraph.com

Developer

4D, Inc

Mireo

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

1984

2016

2020

2003

2017

Current release

v20, April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Python

C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

SQL-like query language (GSQL)

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

selectable replication factor

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

A 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching

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

Access rights for users and roles

Role-based access control

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Recent citations in the news

An Introduction to BigchainDB, a Popular Blockchain Database
17 September 2020, Open Source For You

Blockchain Database Startup BigchainDB Raises €3 Million
27 September 2016, CoinDesk

Using BigchainDB: A Database with Blockchain Characteristics
20 January 2022, Open Source For You

What is BigchainDB Technology & How it works and the Characteristics?
26 August 2017, Blockchain Council

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