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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Apache Phoenix vs. Graphite vs. KairosDB vs. Quasardb

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2Distributed, high-performance timeseries database
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series 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
Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score0.67
Rank#233  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comphoenix.apache.orggithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webgithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbquasar.ai
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comphoenix.apache.orggraphite.readthedocs.iokairosdb.github.iodoc.quasar.ai/­master
Developer4D, IncApache Software FoundationChris Davisquasardb
Initial release19842014200620132009
Current releasev20, April 20235.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 20191.2.2, November 20183.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaPythonJavaC++
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
Linux
Unix
Windows
Linux
Unix
Linux
OS X
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesNumeric data onlyyesyes infointeger and binary
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 indexesyesyesnonoyes infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92yesnonoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
JDBCHTTP API
Sockets
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
HTTP API
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
C
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsnonono
Triggersyesnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnoneSharding infobased on CassandraSharding infoconsistent hashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraSource-replica replication with selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoHadoop integrationnonowith Hadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infolockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoby using LevelDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancynosimple password-based access controlCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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