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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Apache Phoenix vs. FatDB vs. Geode vs. KairosDB

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Name

FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

A scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBase

A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.

Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processes

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	2.58
Rank	#108	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	1.97
Rank	#126	Overall
	#59	Relational DBMS

Score	1.92
Rank	#131	Overall
	#23	Key-value stores

Score	0.62
Rank	#239	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

phoenix.apache.org

geode.apache.org

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

phoenix.apache.org

geode.apache.org/docs

kairosdb.github.io

Developer

4D, Inc

Apache Software Foundation

FatCloud

Originally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.

Initial release

1984

2014

2012

2002

2013

Current release

v20, April 2023

5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 2019

1.1, February 2017

1.2.2, November 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux
Unix
Windows

Windows

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

late-bound, schema-on-read capabilities

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

Via inetgration in SQL Server

SQL-like query language (OQL)

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

JDBC

.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

C
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

yes

via applications

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

via applications

yes

Cache Event Listeners

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

yes, on a single node

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

Access Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancy

Can implement custom security layer via applications

Access rights per client and object definable

simple password-based access control

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