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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. Bangdb vs. BoltDB vs. Heroic

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Name

Description

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

Converged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graph

An embedded key-value store for Go.

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.97
Rank	#126	Overall
	#59	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#347	Overall
	#47	Document stores
	#34	Graph DBMS
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.74
Rank	#220	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	0.51
Rank	#255	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Website

phoenix.apache.org

bangdb.com

github.com/boltdb/bolt

github.com/spotify/heroic

Technical documentation

phoenix.apache.org

docs.bangdb.com

spotify.github.io/heroic

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Spotify

Initial release

2014

2012

2013

2014

Current release

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

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

BSD 3

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C, C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

Linux

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

late-bound, schema-on-read capabilities

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, events

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

yes

via Elasticsearch

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL like support with command line tool

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Sharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithm

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

none

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, optimistic concurrency control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as well

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

yes, run db with in-memory only mode

User concepts

Access control

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

yes (enterprise version only)

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