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

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

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonSplice Machine  Xexclude from comparison
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.Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2Open-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMSRelational 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
Score0.54
Rank#252  Overall
#115  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comphoenix.apache.orgfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasegithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbsplicemachine.com
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comphoenix.apache.orgfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasekairosdb.github.iosplicemachine.com/­how-it-works
Developer4D, IncApache Software FoundationGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Splice Machine
Initial release19842014201220132014
Current releasev20, April 20235.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 20191.2.2, November 20183.1, March 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoAGPL 3.0, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJava
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
Linux
Unix
Windows
hostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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 indexesyesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92yesnonoyes
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
JDBCAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
C
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionslimited functionality with using 'rules'noyes infoJava
TriggersyesnoCallbacks are triggered when data changesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infobased on CassandraShared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor infobased on CassandraMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoHadoop integrationnonoYes, via Full Spark Integration
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
Eventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDyesnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
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.noyesnoyes
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 rulessimple password-based access controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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