DBMS > Apache Drill vs. Apache Phoenix vs. GigaSpaces vs. MySQL vs. SiteWhere

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Apache Phoenix vs. GigaSpaces vs. MySQL vs. SiteWhere

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Name

Description

Schema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud Storage

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

High performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented Transactions

Widely used open source RDBMS

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Values are user defined objects

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS
Search engine

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.95
Rank	#127	Overall
	#23	Document stores
	#60	Relational DBMS

Score	1.97
Rank	#126	Overall
	#59	Relational DBMS

Score	0.97
Rank	#192	Overall
	#32	Document stores
	#6	Object oriented DBMS

Score	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#356	Overall
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Website

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

Technical documentation

drill.apache.org/docs

phoenix.apache.org

docs.gigaspaces.com/latest/landing.html

dev.mysql.com/doc

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Gigaspaces Technologies

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

SiteWhere

Initial release

2012

2014

2000

1995

2010

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

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

15.5, September 2020

8.4.0, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial licenses available

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Cloud-based only

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Implementation language

Java

Java, C++, .Net

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Unix
Windows

Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

late-bound, schema-on-read capabilities

schema-free

yes

predefined scheme

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.

XML can be used for describing objects metadata

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

yes

SQL-99 for query and DML statements

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC

GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

C++

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

.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes, event driven architecture

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

synchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication

synchronous or asynchronous

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

yes

Map-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executors

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANY

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

User concepts

Access control

Depending on the underlying data source

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

Role-based access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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