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DBMS > 4D vs. Apache Phoenix vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Hypertable vs. KairosDB

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Apache Phoenix vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Hypertable vs. KairosDB

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseCloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeWide column storeTime Series 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
Score13.64
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score0.67
Rank#233  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comphoenix.apache.orgfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasegithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdb
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comphoenix.apache.orgfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasekairosdb.github.io
Developer4D, IncApache Software FoundationGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Hypertable Inc.
Initial release19842014201220092013
Current releasev20, April 20235.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 20190.9.8.11, March 20161.2.2, November 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaC++Java
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
Linux
Unix
Windows
hostedLinux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes
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.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92yesnonono
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
JDBCAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
C++ API
Thrift
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
C
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionslimited functionality with using 'rules'nono
TriggersyesnoCallbacks are triggered when data changesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingSharding infobased on Cassandra
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor on file system levelselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandra
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoHadoop integrationnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDyesnono
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.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancyyes, based on authentication and database rulesnosimple password-based access control

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