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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. BoltDB vs. Ehcache vs. Riak KV

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NameApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  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 optionsDistributed, fault tolerant key-value store
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeKey-value storeKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes
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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
Score4.10
Rank#82  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Websitephoenix.apache.orggithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.ehcache.org
Technical documentationphoenix.apache.orgwww.ehcache.org/­documentationwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latest
DeveloperApache Software FoundationTerracotta Inc, owned by Software AGOpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies
Initial release2014201320092009
Current release5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 20193.10.0, March 20223.2.0, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise edition
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaGoJavaErlang
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Data schemeyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesno
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 indexesyesnonorestricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnonono
APIs and other access methodsJDBCJCacheHTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
GoJavaC infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnonoErlang
Triggersnonoyes infoCache Event Listenersyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding infoby using Terracotta ServerSharding infono "single point of failure"
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneyes infoby using Terracotta Serverselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsHadoop integrationnonoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencynoneTunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono infolinks between data sets can be stored
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.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancynonoyes, using Riak Security

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