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DBMS > 4D vs. Apache Phoenix vs. HBase vs. IRONdb vs. KairosDB

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Apache Phoenix vs. HBase vs. IRONdb vs. KairosDB

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSWide column storeTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
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Score2.47
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score2.06
Rank#123  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score27.97
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score0.67
Rank#233  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comphoenix.apache.orghbase.apache.orgwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/github.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdb
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comphoenix.apache.orghbase.apache.org/­book.htmldocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedkairosdb.github.io
Developer4D, IncApache Software FoundationApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetCirconus LLC.
Initial release19842014200820172013
Current releasev20, April 20235.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 20192.3.4, January 2021V0.10.20, January 20181.2.2, November 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC and C++Java
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
Linux
Unix
Windows
Linux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesschema-free, schema definition possibleschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesoptions to bring your own types, AVROyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyes
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 indexesyesyesnonono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92yesnoSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)no
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
JDBCJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
HTTP APIGraphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
C
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsyes infoCoprocessors in Javayes, in Luano
Triggersyesnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeSharding infobased on Cassandra
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
configurable replication factor, datacenter awareselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandra
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoHadoop integrationyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)nono
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.noyesyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancyAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACnosimple password-based access control

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