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DBMS > 4D vs. Apache Phoenix vs. Elasticsearch vs. KairosDB vs. OpenTSDB

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Apache Phoenix vs. Elasticsearch vs. KairosDB vs. OpenTSDB

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseA distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene infoElasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metricDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engineTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.47
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score2.06
Rank#123  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score132.83
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score0.67
Rank#233  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score1.68
Rank#142  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comphoenix.apache.orgwww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchgithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbopentsdb.net
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comphoenix.apache.orgwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmlkairosdb.github.ioopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.html
Developer4D, IncApache Software FoundationElasticcurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors
Initial release19842014201020132011
Current releasev20, April 20235.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 20198.6, January 20231.2.2, November 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoElastic LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoLGPL
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJavaJava
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
Linux
Unix
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tags
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 indexesyesyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexednono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92yesSQL-like query languagenono
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
JDBCJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
HTTP API
Telnet API
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
C
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsyesnono
Triggersyesnoyes infoby using the 'percolation' featurenono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingSharding infobased on CassandraSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandraselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoHadoop integrationES-Hadoop Connectornono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, allEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on HBase
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnonono
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.noyesMemcached and Redis integrationnono
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancysimple password-based access controlno

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