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DBMS > 4D vs. Apache Phoenix vs. EXASOL vs. KairosDB vs. LokiJS

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Apache Phoenix vs. EXASOL vs. KairosDB vs. LokiJS

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2In-memory JavaScript DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
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Score2.47
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score2.06
Rank#123  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score1.76
Rank#139  Overall
#62  Relational DBMS
Score0.67
Rank#233  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Websitewww.4d.comphoenix.apache.orgwww.exasol.comgithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJS
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comphoenix.apache.orgwww.exasol.com/­resourceskairosdb.github.iotechfort.github.io/­LokiJS
Developer4D, IncApache Software FoundationExasol
Initial release19842014200020132014
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
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJavaScript
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
Linux
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyesyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
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.yesnononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnoyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92yesyesnono
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
JDBC.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
JavaScript API
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
C
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
Java
Lua
Python
R
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsuser defined functionsnoView functions in JavaScript
Triggersyesnoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingSharding infobased on Cassandranone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor infobased on Cassandranone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoHadoop integrationyes infoHadoop integrationnoyes
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
none
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDnono infoatomic operations within a single collection possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancyAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardsimple password-based access controlno

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