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

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

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2In-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value storeRelational 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
Score0.67
Rank#233  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score18.08
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score0.17
Rank#334  Overall
#148  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comphoenix.apache.orggithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbwww.memcached.orgwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comphoenix.apache.orgkairosdb.github.iogithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikiwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
Developer4D, IncApache Software FoundationDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release19842014201320031987
Current releasev20, April 20235.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 20191.2.2, November 20181.6.27, May 2024Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoBSD licensecommercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaCC and C++
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
Linux
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes
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 indexesyesyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92yesnonoyes
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
JDBCGraphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
Proprietary protocolADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
C
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsnonoyes
Triggersyesnononoyes
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
selectable replication factor infobased on Cassandranone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallitySource-replica replication
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
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnonoyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesnoyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancysimple password-based access controlyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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