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

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

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonTibero  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 H2A secure RDBMS, designed for easy portability from Oracle
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
Score1.59
Rank#148  Overall
#68  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comphoenix.apache.orgfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasegithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbus.tmaxsoft.com/­products/­tibero
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comphoenix.apache.orgfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasekairosdb.github.iotechnet.tmaxsoft.com/­upload/­download/­online/­tibero/­pver-20150504-000002/­index.html
Developer4D, IncApache Software FoundationGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014TmaxSoft
Initial release19842014201220132003
Current releasev20, April 20235.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 20191.2.2, November 20186, April 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC and Assembler
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
Linux
Unix
Windows
hostedLinux
OS X
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
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.yesnononoyes
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
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Tibero CLI
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#
C++
Cobol
Java
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionslimited functionality with using 'rules'noPersistent Stored Procedure (PSM)
TriggersyesnoCallbacks are triggered when data changesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infobased on Cassandrahorizontal partitioning infoby range, hash, list or composite
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 integrationnonono
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
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.noyesnono infoplanned for next version
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 controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard (SQL 92, SQL 99)

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