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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. BoltDB vs. Cassandra vs. Hypertable

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NameApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonAtos Standard Common Repository  Xexclude from comparisonBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonCassandra  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparison
This system has been discontinued and will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is 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 networksAn embedded key-value store for Go.Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB infoOptimized for write accessAn open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as Hadoop
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Key-value storeWide column storeWide column store
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS infostarting with release V5
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.97
Rank#126  Overall
#59  Relational DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score101.89
Rank#12  Overall
#1  Wide column stores
Websitephoenix.apache.orgatos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repositorygithub.com/­boltdb/­boltcassandra.apache.org
Technical documentationphoenix.apache.orgcassandra.apache.org/­doc/­latest
DeveloperApache Software FoundationAtos Convergence CreatorsApache Software Foundation infoApache top level project, originally developped by FacebookHypertable Inc.
Initial release20142016201320082009
Current release5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 201917034.1.3, July 20230.9.8.11, March 2016
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaGoJavaC++
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows
LinuxBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
Data schemeyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesSchema and schema-less with LDAP viewsschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesoptionalnoyesno
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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesnorestricted infoonly equality queries, not always the best performing solutionrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scans
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnonoSQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)no
APIs and other access methodsJDBCLDAPProprietary protocol infoCQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift
C++ API
Thrift
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
All languages with LDAP bindingsGoC#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnononono
Triggersnoyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infocell divisionnoneSharding infono "single point of failure"Sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesnoneselectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possibleselectable replication factor on file system level
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsHadoop integrationnoyesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationnoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be individually decided for each write operation
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDAtomic execution of specific operationsyesno infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancyLDAP bind authenticationnoAccess rights for users can be defined per objectno
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Apache PhoenixAtos Standard Common RepositoryBoltDBCassandraHypertable
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Competitive advantagesNo single point of failure ensures 100% availability . Operational simplicity for...
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Key customersApple, Netflix, Uber, ING,, Intuit,Fidelity, NY Times, Outbrain, BazaarVoice, Best...
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