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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. Badger vs. BoltDB vs. Realm vs. RocksDB

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NameApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonBadger  Xexclude from comparisonBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  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.An embedded key-value store for Go.A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core DataEmbeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeKey-value storeDocument storeKey-value store
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Score1.90
Rank#125  Overall
#59  Relational DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#328  Overall
#48  Key-value stores
Score0.70
Rank#225  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score7.18
Rank#52  Overall
#8  Document stores
Score2.84
Rank#97  Overall
#16  Key-value stores
Websitephoenix.apache.orggithub.com/­dgraph-io/­badgergithub.com/­boltdb/­boltrealm.iorocksdb.org
Technical documentationphoenix.apache.orggodoc.org/­github.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerrealm.io/­docsgithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wiki
DeveloperApache Software FoundationDGraph LabsRealm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019Facebook, Inc.
Initial release20142017201320142013
Current release5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 20199.4.0, June 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMIT LicenseOpen SourceOpen Source infoBSD
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaGoGoC++
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnonoyesno
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesnonoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnononono
APIs and other access methodsJDBCC++ API
Java API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
GoGo.Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnonono inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessaryno
Triggersnononoyes infoChange Listeners
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenonenonehorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
nonenonenoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsHadoop integrationnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencynonenoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoyesACIDyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.yesnonoyes infoIn-Memory realmyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancynonoyesno

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