DBMS > Apache Phoenix vs. ArangoDB vs. Google BigQuery vs. Hive vs. OrigoDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. ArangoDB vs. Google BigQuery vs. Hive vs. OrigoDB

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Name

Description

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

Native multi-model DBMS for graph, document, key/value and search. All in one engine and accessible with one query language.

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on Hadoop

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Search engine

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

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Score	1.97
Rank	#126	Overall
	#59	Relational DBMS

Score	3.32
Rank	#90	Overall
	#15	Document stores
	#5	Graph DBMS
	#12	Key-value stores
	#10	Search engines

Score	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	61.17
Rank	#18	Overall
	#12	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#53	Document stores
	#20	Object oriented DBMS

Website

phoenix.apache.org

arangodb.com

cloud.google.com/bigquery

hive.apache.org

origodb.com

Technical documentation

phoenix.apache.org

docs.arangodb.com

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/Home

origodb.com/docs

Social network pages

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

ArangoDB Inc.

Google

Apache Software Foundation

initially developed by Facebook

Robert Friberg et al

Initial release

2014

2012

2010

2012

2009

under the name LiveDB

Current release

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

3.11.5, November 2023

3.1.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial license (Enterprise) available

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

late-bound, schema-on-read capabilities

schema-free

automatically recognizes schema within a collection

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, double, boolean, list, hash

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

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.

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

AQL
Foxx Framework
Graph API (Gremlin)
GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Java & SpringData
JSON style queries
VelocyPack/VelocyStream

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

Supported programming languages

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

C#
C++
Clojure
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Rust

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++
Java
PHP
Python

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

JavaScript

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

yes

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

since version 2.0

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication with configurable replication factor

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

can be done with stored procedures in JavaScript

yes

query execution via MapReduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency

configurable per collection or per write
Immediate Consistency
OneShard (highly available, fault-tolerant deployment mode with ACID semantics)

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

depending on model

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Write ahead log

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

yes

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

Access rights for users, groups and roles

Role based authorization

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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