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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. BoltDB vs. Ehcache vs. Elasticsearch

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NameApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseAn embedded key-value store for Go.A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage optionsA distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene infoElasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metric
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeKey-value storeSearch engine
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.97
Rank#126  Overall
#59  Relational DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score4.89
Rank#67  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Score135.35
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Websitephoenix.apache.orggithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.ehcache.orgwww.elastic.co/­elasticsearch
Technical documentationphoenix.apache.orgwww.ehcache.org/­documentationwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.html
DeveloperApache Software FoundationTerracotta Inc, owned by Software AGElastic
Initial release2014201320092010
Current release5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 20193.10.0, March 20228.6, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoElastic License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaGoJavaJava
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VMAll OS with a Java VM
Data schemeyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent
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 indexesyesnonoyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnonoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBCJCacheJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
GoJava.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnonoyes
Triggersnonoyes infoCache Event Listenersyes infoby using the 'percolation' feature
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
noneyes infoby using Terracotta Serveryes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsHadoop integrationnonoES-Hadoop Connector
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencynoneTunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)Eventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyesyes infosupports JTA and can work as an XA resourceno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes 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.yesnoyesMemcached and Redis integration
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancynono

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