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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. BoltDB vs. FileMaker vs. GridGain vs. Heroic

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NameApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseAn embedded key-value store for Go.FileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.06
Rank#123  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score0.80
Rank#215  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score47.91
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score1.55
Rank#150  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#70  Relational DBMS
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Websitephoenix.apache.orggithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.claris.com/­filemakerwww.gridgain.comgithub.com/­spotify/­heroic
Technical documentationphoenix.apache.orgwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationwww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmlspotify.github.io/­heroic
DeveloperApache Software FoundationClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleGridGain Systems, Inc.Spotify
Initial release20142013198320072014
Current release5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 201919.4.1, November 2021GridGain 8.5.1
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoMIT LicensecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaGoJava, C++, .NetJava
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
iOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesschema-freeyesyesschema-free
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.nonoyes infoA http query request can return the data in XML formatyesno
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesyes infovia Elasticsearch
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyes infovia pluginsANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLno
APIs and other access methodsJDBCFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
GoPHPC#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnoyesyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)no
Triggersnonoyesyes (cache interceptors and events)no
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14yes (replicated cache)yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsHadoop integrationnonoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)no
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyesnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancynosimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesSecurity Hooks for custom implementations

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