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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. Badger vs. BigchainDB vs. HEAVY.AI vs. jBASE

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NameApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonBadger  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseAn embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.BigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareA robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeDocument storeRelational DBMSMultivalue DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score2.02
Rank#130  Overall
#63  Relational DBMS
Score0.20
Rank#325  Overall
#49  Key-value stores
Score0.82
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score2.10
Rank#126  Overall
#61  Relational DBMS
Score1.43
Rank#160  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Websitephoenix.apache.orggithub.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerwww.bigchaindb.comgithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
www.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbase
Technical documentationphoenix.apache.orggodoc.org/­github.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocs.heavy.aidocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9
DeveloperApache Software FoundationDGraph LabsHEAVY.AI, Inc.Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)
Initial release20142017201620161991
Current release5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 20195.10, January 20225.7
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaGoPythonC++ and CUDA
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinuxAIX
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnonoyesoptional
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.nonononoyes
Secondary indexesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnonoyesEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC
APIs and other access methodsJDBCCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
GoGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnonoyes
Triggersnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingSharding infoRound robinSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneselectable replication factorMulti-source replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsHadoop integrationnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACID
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.yesnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancynoyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights can be defined down to the item level

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