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

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

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonGalaxybase  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  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 platformDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2Industry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database. infoThe data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMSTime Series DBMSTime 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
Score0.07
Rank#377  Overall
#40  Graph DBMS
Score0.67
Rank#233  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score1.90
Rank#132  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comphoenix.apache.orggalaxybase.comgithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdboss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comphoenix.apache.orgkairosdb.github.iooss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­doc
Developer4D, IncApache Software FoundationChuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司Tobias Oetiker
Initial release19842014201720131999
Current releasev20, April 20235.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 2019Nov 20, November 20211.2.2, November 20181.8.0, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSS
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC and JavaJavaC infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
Linux
Unix
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
HP-UX
Linux
Data schemeyesyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesStrong typed schemaschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesNumeric data only
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 infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possible
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92yesnonono
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
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
in-process shared library
Pipes
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
C
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
Go
Java
Python
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
C infowith librrd library
C# infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Java infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js) infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP infowith a wrapper library
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsuser defined procedures and functionsnono
Triggersyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingSharding infobased on Cassandranone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor infobased on Cassandranone
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 Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
none
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes infoRelationships in graphsnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes infoby using the rrdcached daemon
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.noyesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancyRole-based access controlsimple password-based access controlno

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