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DBMS > Apache Phoenix vs. Cachelot.io vs. CouchDB vs. NebulaGraph vs. PouchDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. Cachelot.io vs. CouchDB vs. NebulaGraph vs. PouchDB

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NameApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonCachelot.io  Xexclude from comparisonCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonNebulaGraph  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  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, linear scalable, high perfomant Graph DBMSJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeDocument storeGraph DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extension
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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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
Score2.23
Rank#116  Overall
#10  Graph DBMS
Score2.34
Rank#112  Overall
#21  Document stores
Websitephoenix.apache.orgcachelot.iocouchdb.apache.orggithub.com/­vesoft-inc/­nebula
www.nebula-graph.io
pouchdb.com
Technical documentationphoenix.apache.orgdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stabledocs.nebula-graph.iopouchdb.com/­guides
DeveloperApache Software FoundationApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerVesoft Inc.Apache Software Foundation
Initial release20142015200520192012
Current release5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 20193.3.3, December 20237.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoSimplified BSD LicenseOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2.0 + Common Clause 1.0Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++ErlangC++JavaScript
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Android
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesschema-freeschema-freeStrong typed schemaschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnonoyesno
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 viewsyes infoNebula Graph internally uses the Key-Value store RocksDB for persistency. The vertices, edges, and their properties are stored as Key while their values are stored as Value. The primary indexes are per Key and secondary indexes are per Value.yes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnonoSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsJDBCMemcached protocolRESTful HTTP/JSON APIBrowser interface
console (shell)
Cypher Query Language
GO Object Graph Mapper
Java Object Graph Mapper
NGBatis infoORM framework for NebulaGraph and Spring-Boot
Proprietary native API
Python Object Graph Mapper
Query language nGQL
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
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
.Net
C++
Go
Java
PHP
Python
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnoView functions in JavaScriptuser defined functionsView functions in JavaScript
Triggersnonoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0ShardingSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Causal Clustering using Raft protocolMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsHadoop integrationnoyesnoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencynoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes infoRelationships in graphsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnono infoatomic operations within a single document possibleACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesnoyesyes infousing RocksDByes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonoyesyes
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 databaseRole-based access controlno
More information provided by the system vendor
Apache PhoenixCachelot.ioCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"NebulaGraphPouchDB
Specific characteristicsNebulaGraph is a truly distributed, linearly scalable, lightning-fast graph database,...
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Competitive advantagesNebulaGraph boasts the world's only graph database solution that is able to host...
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Typical application scenariosSocial networking Fraud detection Knowledge graph Data warehouse management Anti...
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Key customersCompanies from a variety of industries have implemented NebulaGraph Database in production,...
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Market metricsAt our very early stage, NebulaGraph has already received over 10,000 stars on GitHub...
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Licensing and pricing modelsNebulaGraph is open source and free to use under Apache 2.0 license.
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