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

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

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

Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platform

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	2.47
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	2.06
Rank	#123	Overall
	#58	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#377	Overall
	#40	Graph DBMS

Score	0.67
Rank	#233	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#380	Overall
	#50	Document stores
	#18	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

phoenix.apache.org

galaxybase.com

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

origodb.com

Technical documentation

Developer

4D, Inc

Apache Software Foundation

Chuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司

Robert Friberg et al

Initial release

1984

2014

2017

2013

2009

under the name LiveDB

Current release

v20, April 2023

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

Nov 20, November 2021

1.2.2, November 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and Java

Java

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux
Unix
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

late-bound, schema-on-read capabilities

Strong typed schema

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

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

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

JDBC

Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

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

Go
Java
Python

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

user defined procedures and functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

depending on model

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Write ahead log

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

Role-based access control

simple password-based access control

Role based authorization

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