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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Apache Phoenix vs. Databricks vs. Graphite vs. KairosDB

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonDatabricks  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseThe Databricks Lakehouse Platform combines elements of data lakes and data warehouses to provide a unified view onto structured and unstructured data. It is based on Apache Spark.Data 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 DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
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Score2.47
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score2.06
Rank#123  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score81.08
Rank#15  Overall
#2  Document stores
#10  Relational DBMS
Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score0.67
Rank#233  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comphoenix.apache.orgwww.databricks.comgithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webgithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdb
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comphoenix.apache.orgdocs.databricks.comgraphite.readthedocs.iokairosdb.github.io
Developer4D, IncApache Software FoundationDatabricksChris Davis
Initial release19842014201320062013
Current releasev20, April 20235.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 20191.2.2, November 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaPythonJava
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
Linux
Unix
Windows
hostedLinux
Unix
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yesschema-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.yesnoyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92yeswith Databricks SQLnono
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
JDBCJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
Sockets
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
C
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
Python
R
Scala
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsuser defined functions and aggregatesnono
Triggersyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnoneSharding infobased on Cassandra
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesnoneselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandra
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 ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
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.noyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancynosimple password-based access control
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4D infoformer name: 4th DimensionApache PhoenixDatabricksGraphiteKairosDB
Specific characteristicsSupported database models : In addition to the Document store and Relational DBMS...
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