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DBMS > 4D vs. Amazon CloudSearch vs. Apache Phoenix vs. KairosDB vs. Rockset

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Amazon CloudSearch vs. Apache Phoenix vs. KairosDB vs. Rockset

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.47
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score1.81
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score2.06
Rank#123  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score0.67
Rank#233  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score0.82
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Websitewww.4d.comaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchphoenix.apache.orggithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbrockset.com
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchphoenix.apache.orgkairosdb.github.iodocs.rockset.com
Developer4D, IncAmazonApache Software FoundationRockset
Initial release19842012201420132019
Current releasev20, April 20235.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 20191.2.2, November 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonoyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaJavaC++
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
hostedLinux
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
hosted
Data schemeyesyesyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesdynamic typing
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.yesnonono infoingestion from XML files supported
Secondary indexesyesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesnoall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92noyesnoRead-only SQL queries, including JOINs
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
HTTP APIJDBCGraphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
HTTP REST
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
C
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnouser defined functionsnono
Triggersyesnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredShardingSharding infobased on CassandraAutomatic sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyes infomanaged transparently by AWSMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoHadoop integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsauthentication via encrypted signaturesAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancysimple password-based access controlAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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