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DBMS > Apache Drill vs. Apache Phoenix vs. HBase vs. KairosDB vs. TempoIQ

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Apache Phoenix vs. HBase vs. KairosDB vs. TempoIQ

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonTempoIQ infoformerly TempoDB  Xexclude from comparison
TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2Scalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSWide column storeTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.95
Rank#127  Overall
#23  Document stores
#60  Relational DBMS
Score1.97
Rank#126  Overall
#59  Relational DBMS
Score30.50
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score0.62
Rank#239  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Websitedrill.apache.orgphoenix.apache.orghbase.apache.orggithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbtempoiq.com (offline)
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docsphoenix.apache.orghbase.apache.org/­book.htmlkairosdb.github.io
DeveloperApache Software FoundationApache Software FoundationApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetTempoIQ
Initial release20122014200820132012
Current release1.20.3, January 20235.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 20192.3.4, January 20211.2.2, November 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJava
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Unix
Windows
Linux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesschema-free, schema definition possibleschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesoptions to bring your own types, AVROyesyes
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 indexesnoyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantyesnonono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBCJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC++C
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsuser defined functionsyes infoCoprocessors in Javanono
Triggersnonoyesnoyes infoRealtime Alerts
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingSharding infobased on Cassandra
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor infobased on Cassandra
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesHadoop integrationyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)nono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Depending on the underlying data sourceyesyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourceAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancyAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACsimple password-based access controlsimple authentication-based access control

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