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DBMS > 4D vs. Apache Phoenix vs. Citus vs. Firebolt vs. Geode

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Apache Phoenix vs. Citus vs. Firebolt vs. Geode

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonCitus  Xexclude from comparisonFirebolt  Xexclude from comparisonGeode  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseScalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQLHighly scalable cloud data warehouse and analytics product infoForked from ClickhouseGeode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processes
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score1.97
Rank#126  Overall
#59  Relational DBMS
Score2.21
Rank#118  Overall
#56  Relational DBMS
Score1.90
Rank#134  Overall
#62  Relational DBMS
Score1.92
Rank#131  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Websitewww.4d.comphoenix.apache.orgwww.citusdata.comwww.firebolt.iogeode.apache.org
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comphoenix.apache.orgdocs.citusdata.comdocs.firebolt.iogeode.apache.org/­docs
Developer4D, IncApache Software FoundationFirebolt Analytics Inc.Originally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.
Initial release19842014201020202002
Current releasev20, April 20235.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 20198.1, December 20181.1, February 2017
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaCJava
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
Linux
Unix
Windows
LinuxhostedAll OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also required
Data schemeyesyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesyesyesschema-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.yesnoyes infospecific XML type available, but no XML query functionalityno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92yesyes infostandard, with numerous extensionsyesSQL-like query language (OQL)
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
JDBCADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
C
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.nouser defined functions
Triggersyesnoyesnoyes infoCache Event Listeners
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsdepending on storage layerMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoHadoop integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDyes, on a single node
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancyfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights per client and object definable

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