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DBMS > 4D vs. Drizzle vs. KairosDB vs. Pinecone

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Drizzle vs. KairosDB vs. Pinecone

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparison
Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemMySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2A managed, cloud-native vector database
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.47
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.67
Rank#233  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score3.23
Rank#92  Overall
#2  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comgithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbwww.pinecone.io
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comkairosdb.github.iodocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overview
Developer4D, IncDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerPinecone Systems, Inc
Initial release1984200820132019
Current releasev20, April 20237.2.4, September 20121.2.2, November 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGNU GPLOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyes
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Implementation languageC++Java
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Linux
OS X
Windows
hosted
Data schemeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesString, Number, Boolean
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.yesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92yes infowith proprietary extensionsnono
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
JDBCGraphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
C
C++
Java
PHP
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnono
Triggersyesno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.no
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infobased on Cassandra
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor infobased on Cassandra
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPsimple password-based access control

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