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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. BaseX vs. Blueflood vs. EsgynDB

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Name

Description

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

Light-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

Primary database model

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Score	1.97
Rank	#126	Overall
	#59	Relational DBMS

Score	1.73
Rank	#142	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#353	Overall
	#34	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.16
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

phoenix.apache.org

docs.basex.org

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

BaseX GmbH

Rackspace

Esgyn

Initial release

2014

2007

2013

2015

Current release

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

10.7, August 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++, Java

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X

Linux

Data scheme

yes

late-bound, schema-on-read capabilities

schema-free

predefined scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XQuery supports types

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

HTTP REST

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

via events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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