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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. BigObject vs. Machbase Neo vs. Postgres-XL vs. SQL.JS

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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

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	2.06
Rank	#123	Overall
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Score	0.19
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#337	Overall
	#30	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.53
Rank	#254	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	0.63
Rank	#241	Overall
	#112	Relational DBMS

Website

phoenix.apache.org

www.postgres-xl.org

Technical documentation

phoenix.apache.org

docs.bigobject.io

machbase.com/dbms

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

BigObject, Inc.

Machbase

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Initial release

2014

2015

2013

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2012

Current release

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

V8.0, August 2023

10 R1, October 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

free test version available

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

no

no

no

no

no

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Implementation language

Java

C

C

JavaScript

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
macOS
Windows

Linux
macOS

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

yes

late-bound, schema-on-read capabilities

yes

yes

yes

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes

yes

yes

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.

no

no

no

yes

XML type, but no XML query functionality

no

Secondary indexes

yes

yes

yes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

SQL-like query language

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

fluentd
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

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

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

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Lua

no

user defined functions

no

Triggers

no

no

no

yes

no

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

selectable replication factor

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

no

no

no

no

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

no

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

no

yes

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

no

no

ACID

MVCC

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

yes

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes

no

yes

no

except by serializing a db to a file

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

yes

yes

volatile and lookup table

no

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

no

simple password-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

no

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