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DBMS > 4D vs. Apache Phoenix vs. Derby vs. KairosDB vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Apache Phoenix vs. Derby vs. KairosDB vs. SWC-DB

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonDerby infooften called Apache Derby, originally IBM Cloudscape; contained in the Java SDK as JavaDB  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSWide column store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
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Score2.47
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score2.06
Rank#123  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score4.60
Rank#70  Overall
#38  Relational DBMS
Score0.67
Rank#233  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#364  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Websitewww.4d.comphoenix.apache.orgdb.apache.org/­derbygithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbgithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comphoenix.apache.orgdb.apache.org/­derby/­manuals/­index.htmlkairosdb.github.io
Developer4D, IncApache Software FoundationApache Software FoundationAlex Kashirin
Initial release19842014199720132020
Current releasev20, April 20235.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 201910.17.1.0, November 20231.2.2, November 20180.5, April 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJavaC++
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
Linux
Unix
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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 indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92yesyesnoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
JDBCJDBCGraphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
Proprietary protocol
Thrift
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
C
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
JavaJava
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
C++
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsJava Stored Proceduresnono
Triggersyesnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnoneSharding infobased on CassandraSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandra
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoHadoop integrationnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.noyesyesnono
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-standardsimple password-based access control

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