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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. BigObject vs. Faircom EDGE vs. Machbase Neo vs. Postgres-XL

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NameApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonFaircom EDGE infoformerly c-treeEDGE  Xexclude from comparisonMachbase Neo infoFormer name was Infiniflux  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesFairCom EDGE is an Industry 4.0 solution built to integrate, collect, aggregate and synchronize mission-critical data in edge computing environmentsTimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigDataBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score2.06
Rank#123  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score0.19
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score0.09
Rank#362  Overall
#53  Key-value stores
#155  Relational DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#337  Overall
#30  Time Series DBMS
Score0.53
Rank#254  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Websitephoenix.apache.orgbigobject.iowww.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-edgemachbase.comwww.postgres-xl.org
Technical documentationphoenix.apache.orgdocs.bigobject.iodocs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-23d4f1fd-d213-f6d5-b92e-9b7475baa14e.htmlmachbase.com/­dbmswww.postgres-xl.org/­documentation
DeveloperApache Software FoundationBigObject, Inc.FairCom CorporationMachbase
Initial release20142015197920132014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB
Current release5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 2019V3, October 2020V8.0, August 202310 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infofree community edition availablecommercial infoRestricted, free version availablecommercial infofree test version availableOpen Source infoMozilla public license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaANSI C, C++CC
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)
Android
Linux infoARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesyesyes
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.nonoyesnoyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionality
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes infoANSI SQL queriesSQL-like query languageyes infodistributed, parallel query execution
APIs and other access methodsJDBCfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
Direct SQL
IoT Microservice layer
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
VB.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP infovia ODBC
Python
R infovia ODBC
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsLuayes info.Net, JavaScript, C/C++nouser defined functions
Triggersnonoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneFile partitioning infoCustomizable business rules for partitioningShardinghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneyes infoSynchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logsselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsHadoop integrationnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesyes infowhen using SQLnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDnoACID infoMVCC
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yes infoacross SQL and NoSQLyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesnoyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesyes infovolatile and lookup tableno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancynoFine grained user, group and file access rights managed across SQL (per ANSI standard) and NoSQL.simple password-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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