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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. BoltDB vs. Dragonfly vs. Ehcache vs. Heroic

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NameApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseAn embedded key-value store for Go.A drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instanceA widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage optionsTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeKey-value storeKey-value storeTime Series DBMS
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Score1.97
Rank#126  Overall
#59  Relational DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score0.41
Rank#266  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score4.89
Rank#67  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Websitephoenix.apache.orggithub.com/­boltdb/­boltgithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
www.ehcache.orggithub.com/­spotify/­heroic
Technical documentationphoenix.apache.orgwww.dragonflydb.io/­docswww.ehcache.org/­documentationspotify.github.io/­heroic
DeveloperApache Software FoundationDragonflyDB team and community contributorsTerracotta Inc, owned by Software AGSpotify
Initial release20142013202320092014
Current release5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 20191.0, March 20233.10.0, March 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoBSL 1.1Open Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaGoC++JavaJava
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxAll OS with a Java VM
Data schemeyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesschema-freescheme-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnostrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysyesyes
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 indexesyesnononoyes infovia Elasticsearch
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnononono
APIs and other access methodsJDBCProprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolJCacheHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
GoC
C#
C++
Clojure
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Tcl
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnoLuanono
Triggersnonopublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalityyes infoCache Event Listenersno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding infoby using Terracotta ServerSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneSource-replica replicationyes infoby using Terracotta Serveryes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsHadoop integrationnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencynoneEventual ConsistencyTunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyesAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsyes infosupports JTA and can work as an XA resourceno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, strict serializability by the serveryesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infousing a tiered cache-storage approachyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancynoPassword-based authenticationno

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