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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. BoltDB vs. eXtremeDB vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Sadas Engine

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Name

Description

A scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBase

An embedded key-value store for Go.

Natively in-memory DBMS with options for persistency, high-availability and clustering

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

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Score	2.02
Rank	#130	Overall
	#63	Relational DBMS

Score	0.76
Rank	#224	Overall
	#32	Key-value stores

Score	0.73
Rank	#227	Overall
	#104	Relational DBMS
	#18	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.02
Rank	#131	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Score	0.03
Rank	#379	Overall
	#156	Relational DBMS

Website

phoenix.apache.org

github.com/boltdb/bolt

www.mcobject.com

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

www.sadasengine.com

Technical documentation

phoenix.apache.org

www.mcobject.com/docs/extremedb.htm

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

McObject

Oracle

SADAS s.r.l.

Initial release

2014

2013

2001

2007

2006

Current release

5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 2019

8.2, 2021

14.1, August 2023

8.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

free trial version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

late-bound, schema-on-read capabilities

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

support of XML interfaces available

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with the option: eXtremeSQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

.NET Client API
JDBC
JNI
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
Lua
Python
Scala

.Net
C++
Java

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

by defining events

yes

Live Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning / sharding

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

Active Replication Fabric™ for IoT
Multi-source replication

by means of eXtremeDB Cluster option
Source-replica replication

by means of eXtremeDB High Availability option

yes, with selectable consistency level

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

yes

ACID

configurable

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic (MVCC) and pessimistic (locking) strategies available

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optionally

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

User concepts

Access control

Access Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancy

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Licensing and pricing models

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