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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Apache Phoenix vs. BigchainDB vs. ClickHouse

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Name

Description

A fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time access

A scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBase

BigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assets

A high-performance, column-oriented SQL DBMS for online analytical processing (OLAP) that uses all available system resources to their full potential to process each analytical query as fast as possible. It is available as both an open-source software and a cloud offering.

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.25
Rank	#294	Overall
	#12	Wide column stores

Score	1.90
Rank	#125	Overall
	#59	Relational DBMS

Score	0.76
Rank	#216	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	15.88
Rank	#37	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

phoenix.apache.org

www.bigchaindb.com

clickhouse.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

phoenix.apache.org

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

clickhouse.com/docs

Developer

Alibaba

Apache Software Foundation

Clickhouse Inc.

Initial release

2016

2014

2016

Current release

5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 2019

v24.6.2.17-stable, July 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Python

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Unix
Windows

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

late-bound, schema-on-read capabilities

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

JDBC

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MySQL wire protocol
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

C
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

3rd party library
C++
Elixir

3rd party library
Go

3rd party library
Java

3rd party library
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party library
Kotlin

3rd party library
Nim

3rd party library
Perl

3rd party library
PHP

3rd party library
Python

3rd party library
R

3rd party library
Ruby

3rd party library
Rust
Scala

3rd party library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

key based and custom

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

Asynchronous and synchronous physical replication; geographically distributed replicas; support for object storages.

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

Atomic single-row operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights based on subaccounts and tokens

Access Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancy

yes

Access rights for users and roles. Column and row based policies. Quotas and resource limits. Pluggable authentication with LDAP and Kerberos. Password based, X.509 certificate, and SSH key authentication.

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