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DBMS > 4D vs. Apache Phoenix vs. Galaxybase vs. Geode vs. KairosDB

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

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonGalaxybase  Xexclude from comparisonGeode  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseScalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platformGeode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMS
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Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score1.97
Rank#126  Overall
#59  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#39  Graph DBMS
Score1.92
Rank#131  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score0.62
Rank#239  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comphoenix.apache.orggalaxybase.comgeode.apache.orggithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdb
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comphoenix.apache.orggeode.apache.org/­docskairosdb.github.io
Developer4D, IncApache Software FoundationChuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司Originally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.
Initial release19842014201720022013
Current releasev20, April 20235.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 2019Nov 20, November 20211.1, February 20171.2.2, November 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as GemfireOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC and JavaJavaJava
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
Linux
Unix
Windows
LinuxAll OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesStrong typed schemaschema-freeschema-free
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.yesnononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92yesnoSQL-like query language (OQL)no
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
JDBCBrowser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API
Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
C
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
Go
Java
Python
.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsuser defined procedures and functionsuser defined functionsno
Triggersyesnoyes infoCache Event Listenersno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingShardingSharding infobased on Cassandra
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replicationselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandra
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 ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes infoRelationships in graphsnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDyes, on a single nodeno
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.noyesyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancyRole-based access controlAccess rights per client and object definablesimple password-based access control

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