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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. Cachelot.io vs. CouchDB vs. Graph Engine vs. InfinityDB

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NameApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonCachelot.io  Xexclude from comparisonCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseIn-memory caching systemA native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engineA Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeDocument storeGraph DBMS
Key-value store
Key-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extension
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Score2.06
Rank#123  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#388  Overall
#62  Key-value stores
Score8.30
Rank#47  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score0.67
Rank#232  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#34  Key-value stores
Score0.08
Rank#365  Overall
#55  Key-value stores
Websitephoenix.apache.orgcachelot.iocouchdb.apache.orgwww.graphengine.ioboilerbay.com
Technical documentationphoenix.apache.orgdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stablewww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manual
DeveloperApache Software FoundationApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerMicrosoftBoiler Bay Inc.
Initial release20142015200520102002
Current release5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 20193.3.3, December 20234.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoSimplified BSD LicenseOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoMIT Licensecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++Erlang.NET and CJava
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Android
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
.NETAll OS with a Java VM
Data schemeyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesschema-freeschema-freeyesyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgrade
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnonoyesyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyes infovia viewsno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnononono
APIs and other access methodsJDBCMemcached protocolRESTful HTTP/JSON APIRESTful HTTP APIAccess via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnoView functions in JavaScriptyesno
Triggersnonoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0horizontal partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsHadoop integrationnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencynoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnono infoatomic operations within a single document possiblenoACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesnoyesoptional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storageyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancynoAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseno

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