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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Apache Phoenix vs. Axibase vs. eXtremeDB vs. mSQL

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonAxibase  Xexclude from comparisoneXtremeDB  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualizationNatively in-memory DBMS with options for persistency, high-availability and clusteringmSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.37
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score1.90
Rank#125  Overall
#59  Relational DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#308  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#100  Relational DBMS
#18  Time Series DBMS
Score1.26
Rank#163  Overall
#74  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comphoenix.apache.orgaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financewww.mcobject.comhughestech.com.au/­products/­msql
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comphoenix.apache.orgwww.mcobject.com/­docs/­extremedb.htm
Developer4D, IncApache Software FoundationAxibase CorporationMcObjectHughes Technologies
Initial release19842014201320011994
Current releasev20, April 20235.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 2019155858.2, 20214.4, October 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidcommercialcommercial infofree licenses can be provided
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC and C++C
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
Linux
Unix
Windows
LinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Data schemeyesyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, stringyesyes
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 infosupport of XML interfaces availableno
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92yesSQL-like query languageyes infowith the option: eXtremeSQLA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
JDBCJDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
JDBC
JNI
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
C
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
Lua
Python
Scala
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsyesyesno
Triggersyesnoyesyes infoby defining eventsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning / shardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationActive Replication Fabric™ for IoT
Multi-source replication infoby means of eXtremeDB Cluster option
Source-replica replication infoby means of eXtremeDB High Availability option
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoHadoop integrationyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoOptimistic (MVCC) and pessimistic (locking) strategies availableno
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 Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancyno

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