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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. BigchainDB vs. Ehcache vs. Heroic vs. PostGIS

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NameApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsA widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage optionsTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchSpatial extension of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeKey-value storeTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score2.06
Rank#123  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score4.64
Rank#68  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Websitephoenix.apache.orgwww.bigchaindb.comwww.ehcache.orggithub.com/­spotify/­heroicpostgis.net
Technical documentationphoenix.apache.orgbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestwww.ehcache.org/­documentationspotify.github.io/­heroicpostgis.net/­documentation
DeveloperApache Software FoundationTerracotta Inc, owned by Software AGSpotify
Initial release20142016200920142005
Current release5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 20193.10.0, March 20223.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL v2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaPythonJavaJavaC
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows
LinuxAll OS with a Java VM
Data schemeyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesyes
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.nonononoyes
Secondary indexesyesnoyes infovia Elasticsearchyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnononoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBCCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
JCacheHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnonouser defined functions
Triggersnoyes infoCache Event Listenersnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infoby using Terracotta ServerShardingyes infobased on PostgreSQL
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factoryes infoby using Terracotta Serveryesyes infobased on PostgreSQL
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsHadoop integrationnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyTunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyes infosupports JTA and can work as an XA resourcenoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByes infousing a tiered cache-storage approachyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancyyesnoyes infobased on PostgreSQL

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