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DBMS > 4D vs. Apache Phoenix vs. IBM Cloudant vs. KairosDB vs. YugabyteDB

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Apache Phoenix vs. IBM Cloudant vs. KairosDB vs. YugabyteDB

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonYugabyteDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2High-performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale applications. Wire and feature compatible with PostgreSQL.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Wide column store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.47
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score2.06
Rank#123  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score0.67
Rank#233  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score2.63
Rank#109  Overall
#53  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comphoenix.apache.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantgithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbwww.yugabyte.com
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comphoenix.apache.orgcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantkairosdb.github.iodocs.yugabyte.com
github.com/­yugabyte/­yugabyte-db
Developer4D, IncApache Software FoundationIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Yugabyte Inc.
Initial release19842014201020132017
Current releasev20, April 20235.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 20191.2.2, November 20182.19, September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaErlangJavaC and C++
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
Linux
Unix
Windows
hostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Data schemeyesyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesschema-freeschema-freedepending on used data model
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes
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 indexesyesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92yesnonoyes, PostgreSQL compatible
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
JDBCRESTful HTTP/JSON APIGraphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
JDBC
YCQL, an SQL-based flexible-schema API with its roots in Cassandra Query Language
YSQL - a fully relational SQL API that is wire compatible with the SQL language in PostgreSQL
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
C
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptnoyes infosql, plpgsql, C
Triggersyesnoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingSharding infobased on CassandraHash and Range Sharding, row-level geo-partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor infobased on CassandraBased on Raft distributed consensus protocol, minimum 3 replicas for continuous availability
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 ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Strong consistency on writes and tunable consistency on reads
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possiblenoDistributed ACID with Serializable & Snapshot Isolation. Inspired by Google Spanner architecture.
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infobased on RocksDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnonono
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancyAccess rights for users can be defined per databasesimple password-based access controlyes
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4D infoformer name: 4th DimensionApache PhoenixIBM CloudantKairosDBYugabyteDB
Specific characteristicsYugabyteDB is an open source distributed SQL database for cloud native transactional...
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Competitive advantagesPostgreSQL compatible: Get instantly productive with a PostgreSQL compatible RDBMS....
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Typical application scenariosSystems of record and engagement for cloud native applications that require resilience,...
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Market metrics2 Million+ lifetime clusters deployed, 6.5K+ GitHub stars, 7K YugabyteDB Community...
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Licensing and pricing modelsApache 2.0 license for the database
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