DBMS > Apache Phoenix vs. BoltDB vs. SiteWhere vs. SQLite vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. BoltDB vs. SiteWhere vs. SQLite vs. SWC-DB

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Name

Description

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

An embedded key-value store for Go.

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	1.97
Rank	#126	Overall
	#59	Relational DBMS

Score	0.74
Rank	#220	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	0.06
Rank	#356	Overall
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#376	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

phoenix.apache.org

github.com/boltdb/bolt

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

www.sqlite.org

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

phoenix.apache.org

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

SiteWhere

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2014

2013

2010

2000

2020

Current release

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

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Open Source

Public Domain

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less

Linux

Data scheme

yes

late-bound, schema-on-read capabilities

schema-free

predefined scheme

yes

dynamic column types

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

HTTP REST

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

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

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

based on HBase

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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