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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. Cachelot.io vs. CouchDB vs. GridGain vs. InfinityDB

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NameApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonCachelot.io  Xexclude from comparisonCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  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.GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteA Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeDocument storeKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Key-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extension
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
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
Score1.55
Rank#150  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#70  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#365  Overall
#55  Key-value stores
Websitephoenix.apache.orgcachelot.iocouchdb.apache.orgwww.gridgain.comboilerbay.com
Technical documentationphoenix.apache.orgdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stablewww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmlboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manual
DeveloperApache Software FoundationApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerGridGain Systems, Inc.Boiler Bay Inc.
Initial release20142015200520072002
Current release5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 20193.3.3, December 2023GridGain 8.5.14.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoSimplified BSD LicenseOpen Source infoApache version 2commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++ErlangJava, C++, .NetJava
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Android
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All 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.nononoyesno
Secondary indexesyesnoyes infovia viewsyesno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnonoANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLno
APIs and other access methodsJDBCMemcached protocolRESTful HTTP/JSON APIHDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
Access 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++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnoView functions in JavaScriptyes (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 nodesShardingnoneSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0Shardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes (replicated cache)none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsHadoop integrationnoyesyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)no
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencynoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate 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 possibleACIDACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesnoyesyesyes
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 databaseSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsno

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