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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. Apache Doris vs. Apache Phoenix vs. KairosDB

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Hosted, scalable database service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloud

An MPP-based analytics DBMS embracing the MySQL protocol

A scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBase

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	2.47
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	74.45
Rank	#17	Overall
	#3	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	0.60
Rank	#247	Overall
	#113	Relational DBMS

Score	2.06
Rank	#123	Overall
	#58	Relational DBMS

Score	0.67
Rank	#233	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

doris.apache.org
github.com/apache/doris

phoenix.apache.org

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

github.com/apache/doris/wiki

phoenix.apache.org

kairosdb.github.io

Developer

4D, Inc

Amazon

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from Baidu

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

1984

2012

2017

2014

2013

Current release

v20, April 2023

1.2.2, February 2023

5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 2019

1.2.2, November 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux

Linux
Unix
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

late-bound, schema-on-read capabilities

schema-free

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
MySQL client

JDBC

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java

C
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

ACID across one or more tables within a single AWS account and region

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

Access rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancy

simple password-based access control

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