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DBMS > 4D vs. Apache Phoenix vs. ITTIA vs. KairosDB vs. Memcached

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Apache Phoenix vs. ITTIA vs. KairosDB vs. Memcached

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonITTIA  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseEdge Time Series DBMS with Real-Time Stream ProcessingDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2In-memory key-value store, originally intended for caching
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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
Score0.44
Rank#267  Overall
#23  Time Series DBMS
Score0.67
Rank#233  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score18.08
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Websitewww.4d.comphoenix.apache.orgwww.ittia.comgithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbwww.memcached.org
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comphoenix.apache.orgkairosdb.github.iogithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wiki
Developer4D, IncApache Software FoundationITTIA L.L.C.Danga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal
Initial release19842014200720132003
Current releasev20, April 20235.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 20198.71.2.2, November 20181.6.27, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoBSD license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++JavaC
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
Linux
Unix
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeyesyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesFixed schemaschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesFloat/Blob/Integer/String/Unicode/Date/Time/Timestamp/Intervalyesno
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.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92yesyesnono
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
JDBCJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
C
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C
C++
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsyesnono
Triggersyesnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infobased on Cassandranone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandranone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity
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 ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDyesnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesno
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancyDatabase file passwordssimple password-based access controlyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

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