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DBMS > 4D vs. Amazon Neptune vs. Apache Phoenix vs. Elasticsearch vs. KairosDB

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Amazon Neptune vs. Apache Phoenix vs. Elasticsearch vs. KairosDB

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon Neptune  Xexclude from comparisonApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemFast, reliable graph database built for the cloudA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseA distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene infoElasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metricDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2
Primary database modelRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMSSearch engineTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.47
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score2.29
Rank#113  Overall
#9  Graph DBMS
#5  RDF stores
Score2.06
Rank#123  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score132.83
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score0.67
Rank#233  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comaws.amazon.com/­neptunephoenix.apache.orgwww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchgithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdb
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comaws.amazon.com/­neptune/­developer-resourcesphoenix.apache.orgwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmlkairosdb.github.io
Developer4D, IncAmazonApache Software FoundationElastic
Initial release19842017201420102013
Current releasev20, April 20235.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 20198.6, January 20231.2.2, November 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoElastic LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJava
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
hostedLinux
Unix
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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 indexesyesnoyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92noyesSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
OpenCypher
RDF 1.1 / SPARQL 1.1
TinkerPop Gremlin
JDBCJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnouser defined functionsyesno
Triggersyesnonoyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingShardingSharding infobased on Cassandra
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationMulti-availability zones high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicas within a single region. Global database clusters consists of a primary write DB cluster in one region, and up to five secondary read DB clusters in different regions. Each secondary region can have up to 16 reader instances.Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandra
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoHadoop integrationES-Hadoop Connectorno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, allEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes infoRelationships in graphsnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infowith encyption-at-restyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesMemcached and Redis integrationno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)Access Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancysimple password-based access control

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