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DBMS > 4D vs. AnzoGraph DB vs. Apache Phoenix vs. Graphite vs. KairosDB

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. AnzoGraph DB vs. Apache Phoenix vs. Graphite vs. KairosDB

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonAnzoGraph DB  Xexclude from comparisonApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemScalable graph database built for online analytics and data harmonization with MPP scaling, high-performance analytical algorithms and reasoning, and virtualizationA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2
Primary database modelRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.47
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#303  Overall
#25  Graph DBMS
#14  RDF stores
Score2.06
Rank#123  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score0.67
Rank#233  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comcambridgesemantics.com/­anzographphoenix.apache.orggithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webgithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdb
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comdocs.cambridgesemantics.com/­anzograph/­userdoc/­home.htmphoenix.apache.orggraphite.readthedocs.iokairosdb.github.io
Developer4D, IncCambridge SemanticsApache Software FoundationChris Davis
Initial release19842018201420062013
Current releasev20, April 20232.3, January 20215.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 20191.2.2, November 2018
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree trial version availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaPythonJava
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
Unix
Windows
Linux
Unix
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesSchema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesNumeric data onlyyes
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 indexesyesnoyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92SPARQL and SPARQL* as primary query language. Cypher preview.yesnono
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
Apache Mule
gRPC
JDBC
Kafka
OData access for BI tools
OpenCypher
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
JDBCHTTP API
Sockets
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
C++
Java
Python
C
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functions and aggregatesuser defined functionsnono
Triggersyesnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneAutomatic shardingShardingnoneSharding infobased on Cassandra
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication in MPP-ClusterMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandra
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoKerberos/HDFS data loadingHadoop integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in MPP-ClusterImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno infonot needed in graphsnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infolockingyes
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.noyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsAccess rights for users and rolesAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancynosimple password-based access control

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