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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Apache Phoenix vs. BigchainDB vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. PouchDB

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeSearch engineDocument store
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS
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Score1.07
Rank#186  Overall
#87  Relational DBMS
Score1.97
Rank#126  Overall
#59  Relational DBMS
Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score5.59
Rank#63  Overall
#7  Search engines
Score2.28
Rank#115  Overall
#21  Document stores
Websitealtibase.comphoenix.apache.orgwww.bigchaindb.comazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchpouchdb.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsphoenix.apache.orgbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestlearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchpouchdb.com/­guides
DeveloperAltibaseApache Software FoundationMicrosoftApache Software Foundation
Initial release19992014201620152012
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20235.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 2019V17.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoAGPL v3commercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageC++JavaPythonJavaScript
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Linux
Unix
Windows
Linuxhostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyesyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesno
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92yesnonono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
JDBCCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIHTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
C
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsuser defined functionsnoView functions in JavaScript
Triggersyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factoryes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoHadoop integrationnonoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancyyesyes infousing Azure authenticationno

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