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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. Bangdb vs. InfinityDB vs. mSQL

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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

A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Relational 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	0.00
Rank	#378	Overall
	#57	Key-value stores

Score	1.27
Rank	#167	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

Website

phoenix.apache.org

bangdb.com

boilerbay.com

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

Technical documentation

phoenix.apache.org

docs.bangdb.com

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Boiler Bay Inc.

Hughes Technologies

Initial release

2014

2012

2002

1994

Current release

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

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

4.0

4.4, October 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

BSD 3

commercial

free licenses can be provided

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

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

yes

late-bound, schema-on-read capabilities

schema-free

yes

nested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical â€˜tuple spaceâ€™ runtime Schema upgrade

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

yes

all Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays

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

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL like support with command line tool

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/docs/ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

Java

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

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

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

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

Immediate Consistency

READ-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Optimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads

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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