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DBMS > Apache Phoenix vs. BoltDB vs. chDB vs. IRONdb vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. BoltDB vs. chDB vs. IRONdb vs. RocksDB

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NameApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonchDB  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseAn embedded key-value store for Go.An embedded SQL OLAP Engine powered by ClickHouseA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityEmbeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
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Score1.90
Rank#125  Overall
#59  Relational DBMS
Score0.70
Rank#225  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score0.05
Rank#358  Overall
#152  Relational DBMS
Score2.84
Rank#97  Overall
#16  Key-value stores
Websitephoenix.apache.orggithub.com/­boltdb/­boltgithub.com/­chdb-io/­chdbwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/rocksdb.org
Technical documentationphoenix.apache.orgdoc.chdb.iodocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedgithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wiki
DeveloperApache Software FoundationCirconus LLC.Facebook, Inc.
Initial release20142013202320172013
Current release5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 2019V0.10.20, January 20189.4.0, June 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoBSD
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaGoC and C++C++
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
server-lessLinuxLinux
Data schemeyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyes infotext, numeric, histogramsno
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 indexesyesnonono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoClose to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)no
APIs and other access methodsJDBCHTTP APIC++ API
Java API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
GoBun
C
C++
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnoyes, in Luano
Triggersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneAutomatic, metric affinity per nodehorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsHadoop integrationnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencynoneImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyesnoyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancynonono

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