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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. ArangoDB vs. CouchDB vs. EventStoreDB vs. InfinityDB

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NameApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonArangoDB  Xexclude from comparisonCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonEventStoreDB  Xexclude from comparisonInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseNative multi-model DBMS for graph, document, key/value and search. All in one engine and accessible with one query language.A native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.Industrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Search engine
Document storeEvent StoreKey-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extension
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Score2.06
Rank#123  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score3.26
Rank#88  Overall
#15  Document stores
#5  Graph DBMS
#12  Key-value stores
#10  Search engines
Score8.30
Rank#47  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score1.19
Rank#173  Overall
#1  Event Stores
Score0.08
Rank#365  Overall
#55  Key-value stores
Websitephoenix.apache.orgarangodb.comcouchdb.apache.orgwww.eventstore.comboilerbay.com
Technical documentationphoenix.apache.orgdocs.arangodb.comdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stabledevelopers.eventstore.comboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manual
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterYouTubeFacebookInstagram
DeveloperApache Software FoundationArangoDB Inc.Apache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerEvent Store LimitedBoiler Bay Inc.
Initial release20142012200520122002
Current release5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 20193.11.5, November 20233.3.3, December 202321.2, February 20214.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial license (Enterprise) availableOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Sourcecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++ErlangJava
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Android
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
All OS with a Java VM
Data schemeyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesschema-free infoautomatically recognizes schema within a collectionschema-freeyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgrade
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infostring, double, boolean, list, hashnoyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infovia viewsno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnonono
APIs and other access methodsJDBCAQL
Foxx Framework
Graph API (Gremlin)
GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Java & SpringData
JSON style queries
VelocyPack/VelocyStream
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIAccess via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C#
C++
Clojure
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Rust
C
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsJavaScriptView functions in JavaScriptno
Triggersnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infosince version 2.0Sharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0none
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replication with configurable replication factorMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsHadoop integrationno infocan be done with stored procedures in JavaScriptyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoconfigurable per collection or per write
Immediate Consistency
OneShard (highly available, fault-tolerant deployment mode with ACID semantics)
Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes inforelationships in graphsnono infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDno infoatomic operations within a single document possibleACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyes
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.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancyyesAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseno
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Apache PhoenixArangoDBCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"EventStoreDBInfinityDB
Specific characteristicsGraph and Beyond. With more than 11,000 stargazers on GitHub, ArangoDB is the leading...
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Competitive advantagesConsolidation: As a native multi-model database, can be used as a full blown document...
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Typical application scenariosNative multi-model in ArangoDB is being used for a broad range of projects across...
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Key customersCisco, Barclays, Refinitive, Siemens Mentor, Kabbage, Liaison, Douglas, MakeMyTrip,...
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Market metricsArangoDB is the leading native multi-model database with over 11,000 stargazers on...
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Licensing and pricing modelsVery permissive Apache 2 License for Community Edition & commercial licenses are...
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