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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. BigObject vs. Blueflood vs. RDFox

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Name

Description

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

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

High performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Time Series DBMS

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.97
Rank	#126	Overall
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Score	0.13
Rank	#333	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#353	Overall
	#34	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#308	Overall
	#25	Graph DBMS
	#14	RDF stores

Website

phoenix.apache.org

bigobject.io

blueflood.io

www.oxfordsemantic.tech

Technical documentation

phoenix.apache.org

docs.bigobject.io

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

docs.oxfordsemantic.tech

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

BigObject, Inc.

Rackspace

Oxford Semantic Technologies

Initial release

2014

2015

2013

2017

Current release

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

6.0, Septermber 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

Linux
OS X

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

late-bound, schema-on-read capabilities

yes

predefined scheme

yes

RDF schemas

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

Supported programming languages

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

C
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Lua

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

replication via a shared file system

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

none

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

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

Roles, resources, and access types

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