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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. BigchainDB vs. QuestDB vs. SiteWhere

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NameApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonAtos Standard Common Repository  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparison
This system has been discontinued and will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseHighly scalable database system, designed for managing session and subscriber data in modern mobile communication networksBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsA high performance open source SQL database for time series dataM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Document storeTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.97
Rank#126  Overall
#59  Relational DBMS
Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score2.52
Rank#109  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#356  Overall
#35  Time Series DBMS
Websitephoenix.apache.orgatos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repositorywww.bigchaindb.comquestdb.iogithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhere
Technical documentationphoenix.apache.orgbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestquestdb.io/­docssitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
DeveloperApache Software FoundationAtos Convergence CreatorsQuestDB Technology IncSiteWhere
Initial release20142016201620142010
Current release5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 20191703
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaJavaPythonJava (Zero-GC), C++, RustJava
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows
LinuxLinuxLinux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesSchema and schema-less with LDAP viewsschema-freeyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolpredefined scheme
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesoptionalnoyesyes
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.noyesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnonoSQL with time-series extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsJDBCLDAPCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
All languages with LDAP bindingsGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnono
Triggersnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infocell divisionShardinghorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)Sharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesselectable replication factorSource-replica replication with eventual consistencyselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsHadoop integrationnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDAtomic execution of specific operationsACID for single-table writesno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes infothrough memory mapped filesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancyLDAP bind authenticationyesUsers with fine-grained authorization concept
More information provided by the system vendor
Apache PhoenixAtos Standard Common RepositoryBigchainDBQuestDBSiteWhere
Specific characteristicsRelational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantagesHigh ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenariosFinancial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customersBanks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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