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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. BigchainDB vs. Datomic vs. HyperSQL

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NameApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityMultithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java infoalso known as HSQLDB
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.90
Rank#125  Overall
#59  Relational DBMS
Score0.76
Rank#216  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score1.55
Rank#144  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score3.14
Rank#85  Overall
#46  Relational DBMS
Websitephoenix.apache.orgwww.bigchaindb.comwww.datomic.comhsqldb.org
Technical documentationphoenix.apache.orgbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocs.datomic.comhsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.html
DeveloperApache Software FoundationCognitect
Initial release2014201620122001
Current release5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 20191.0.7180, July 20242.7.2, June 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoAGPL v3commercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infobased on BSD license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaPythonJava, ClojureJava
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows
LinuxAll OS with a Java VMAll OS with a Java VM infoEmbedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes
Data schemeyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnonoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBCCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIHTTP API infoJDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Clojure
Java
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyes infoTransaction FunctionsJava, SQL
TriggersnoBy using transaction functionsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factornone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsHadoop integrationnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes inforecommended only for testing and developmentyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancyyesnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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