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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. BigchainDB vs. Dgraph vs. LokiJS vs. Oracle Coherence

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NameApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Coherence  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsDistributed and scalable native Graph DBMSIn-memory JavaScript DBMSOracles in-memory data grid solution
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeGraph DBMSDocument storeKey-value store
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Score2.02
Rank#130  Overall
#63  Relational DBMS
Score0.82
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score1.48
Rank#158  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score0.48
Rank#262  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score2.02
Rank#131  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Websitephoenix.apache.orgwww.bigchaindb.comdgraph.iogithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSwww.oracle.com/­java/­coherence
Technical documentationphoenix.apache.orgbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdgraph.io/­docstechfort.github.io/­LokiJSdocs.oracle.com/­en/­middleware/­standalone/­coherence
DeveloperApache Software FoundationDgraph Labs, Inc.Oracle
Initial release20142016201620142007
Current release5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 201914.1, August 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Sourcecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaPythonGoJavaScriptJava
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)All OS with a Java VM
Data schemeyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesnoyes
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 indexesyesyesyes infovia viewsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnononono
APIs and other access methodsJDBCCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
JavaScript APIJCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScript.Net
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnoView functions in JavaScriptno
Triggersnonoyesyes infoLive Events
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingyesnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factorSynchronous replication via Raftnoneyes, with selectable consistency level
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsHadoop integrationnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDno infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleconfigurable
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yes infooptionally
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancyyesno infoPlanned for future releasesnoauthentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

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