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DBMS > Apache Phoenix vs. Blueflood vs. Datomic vs. Teradata Aster

System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. Blueflood vs. Datomic vs. Teradata Aster

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NameApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata Aster  Xexclude from comparison
Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityPlatform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.06
Rank#123  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#346  Overall
#33  Time Series DBMS
Score1.66
Rank#144  Overall
#66  Relational DBMS
Websitephoenix.apache.orgblueflood.iowww.datomic.com
Technical documentationphoenix.apache.orggithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikidocs.datomic.com
DeveloperApache Software FoundationRackspaceCognitectTeradata
Initial release2014201320122005
Current release5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 20191.0.7075, December 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial infolimited edition freecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJava, Clojure
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
All OS with a Java VMLinux
Data schemeyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiespredefined schemeyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free) infodefined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.nononoyes infoin Aster File Store
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnonoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBCHTTP RESTRESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
Clojure
Java
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnoyes infoTransaction FunctionsR packages
TriggersnonoBy using transaction functionsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infobased on Cassandranone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor infobased on Cassandranone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersyes infoDimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsHadoop integrationnonoyes infoSQL Map-Reduce Framework
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes 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.yesnoyes inforecommended only for testing and developmentno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancynonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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