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DBMS > Apache Phoenix vs. BigObject vs. BoltDB vs. DolphinDB vs. Elasticsearch

System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. BigObject vs. BoltDB vs. DolphinDB vs. Elasticsearch

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NameApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonDolphinDB  Xexclude from comparisonElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesAn embedded key-value store for Go.DolphinDB is a high performance Time Series DBMS. It is integrated with an easy-to-use fully featured programming language and a high-volume high-velocity streaming analytics system. It offers operational simplicity, scalability, fault tolerance, and concurrency.A distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene infoElasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metric
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedKey-value storeTime Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Search engine
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.90
Rank#125  Overall
#59  Relational DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#329  Overall
#147  Relational DBMS
Score0.70
Rank#225  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score2.72
Rank#100  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
#5  Vector DBMS
Score128.79
Rank#8  Overall
#1  Search engines
Websitephoenix.apache.orgbigobject.iogithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.dolphindb.comwww.elastic.co/­elasticsearch
Technical documentationphoenix.apache.orgdocs.bigobject.iodocs.dolphindb.cn/­en/­help200/­index.htmlwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.html
DeveloperApache Software FoundationBigObject, Inc.DolphinDB, IncElastic
Initial release20142015201320182010
Current release5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 2019v2.00.4, January 20228.6, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoMIT Licensecommercial infofree community version availableOpen Source infoElastic License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaGoC++Java
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows
Linux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
All OS with a Java VM
Data schemeyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesyesschema-freeyesschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes
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 indexesyesyesnoyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBCfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
GoC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust
.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsLuanoyesyes
Triggersnonononoyes infoby using the 'percolation' feature
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenonehorizontal partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
nonenoneyesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsHadoop integrationnonoyesES-Hadoop Connector
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencynonenoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoyesyesno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyesyes
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.yesyesnoyesMemcached and Redis integration
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancynonoAdministrators, Users, Groups

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