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

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

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonEDB Postgres  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 HBaseThe EDB Postgres Platform is an enterprise-class data management platform based on the open source database PostgreSQL with flexible deployment options and Oracle compatibility features, complemented by tool kits for management, integration, and migration.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 modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score2.47
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score2.06
Rank#123  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score1.91
Rank#130  Overall
#60  Relational DBMS
Score0.67
Rank#233  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#364  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Websitewww.4d.comphoenix.apache.orgwww.enterprisedb.comgithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbgithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comphoenix.apache.orgwww.enterprisedb.com/­docskairosdb.github.io
Developer4D, IncApache Software FoundationEnterpriseDBAlex Kashirin
Initial release19842014200520132020
Current releasev20, April 20235.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 201914, December 20211.2.2, November 20180.5, April 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infoBSD for PostgreSQL-componentsOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaCJavaC++
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
Linux
Unix
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
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.yesnoyes infospecific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.nono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92yesyes infostandard with numerous extensionsnoSQL-like query language
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
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
Proprietary protocol
Thrift
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
C
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
C++
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.nono
Triggersyesnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardinghorizontal partitioning infoby hash, list or rangeSharding infobased on CassandraSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source 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 datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
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.noyesnonono
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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