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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. Cassandra vs. Dgraph vs. HugeGraph vs. Oracle Coherence

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NameApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonCassandra  Xexclude from comparisonDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Coherence  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseWide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB infoOptimized for write accessDistributed and scalable native Graph DBMSA fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSOracles in-memory data grid solution
Primary database modelRelational DBMSWide column storeGraph DBMSGraph DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS infostarting with release V5
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.97
Rank#126  Overall
#59  Relational DBMS
Score101.89
Rank#12  Overall
#1  Wide column stores
Score1.45
Rank#156  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#336  Overall
#32  Graph DBMS
Score1.92
Rank#130  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Websitephoenix.apache.orgcassandra.apache.orgdgraph.iogithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
www.oracle.com/­java/­coherence
Technical documentationphoenix.apache.orgcassandra.apache.org/­doc/­latestdgraph.io/­docshugegraph.apache.org/­docsdocs.oracle.com/­en/­middleware/­standalone/­coherence
DeveloperApache Software FoundationApache Software Foundation infoApache top level project, originally developped by FacebookDgraph Labs, Inc.BaiduOracle
Initial release20142008201620182007
Current release5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 20194.1.3, July 20230.914.1, August 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaGoJavaJava
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Unix
All OS with a Java VM
Data schemeyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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 indexesyesrestricted infoonly equality queries, not always the best performing solutionyesyes infoalso supports composite index and range indexno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)nonono
APIs and other access methodsJDBCProprietary protocol infoCQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift
GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Groovy
Java
Python
.Net
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnonoasynchronous Gremlin script jobsno
Triggersnoyesnonoyes infoLive Events
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infono "single point of failure"yesyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possibleSynchronous replication via Raftyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseyes, with selectable consistency level
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsHadoop integrationyesnovia hugegraph-sparkno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be individually decided for each write operation
Immediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes infoedges in graphno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsACIDACIDconfigurable
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infooptionally
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancyAccess rights for users can be defined per objectno infoPlanned for future releasesUsers, roles and permissionsauthentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication
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Specific characteristicsApache Cassandra is the leading NoSQL, distributed database management system, well...
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Competitive advantagesNo single point of failure ensures 100% availability . Operational simplicity for...
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Typical application scenariosInternet of Things (IOT), fraud detection applications, recommendation engines, product...
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Key customersApple, Netflix, Uber, ING,, Intuit,Fidelity, NY Times, Outbrain, BazaarVoice, Best...
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Market metricsCassandra is used by 40% of the Fortune 100.
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Licensing and pricing modelsApache license  Pricing for commercial distributions provided by DataStax and available...
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