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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. Citus vs. Oracle Rdb vs. RocksDB vs. Teradata

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NameApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonCitus  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Rdb  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseScalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQLEmbeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)A hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.90
Rank#125  Overall
#59  Relational DBMS
Score2.13
Rank#117  Overall
#56  Relational DBMS
Score1.04
Rank#184  Overall
#84  Relational DBMS
Score2.84
Rank#97  Overall
#16  Key-value stores
Score41.47
Rank#22  Overall
#15  Relational DBMS
Websitephoenix.apache.orgwww.citusdata.comwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb.htmlrocksdb.orgwww.teradata.com
Technical documentationphoenix.apache.orgdocs.citusdata.comwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb-doc.htmlgithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wikidocs.teradata.com
DeveloperApache Software FoundationOracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)Facebook, Inc.Teradata
Initial release20142010198420131984
Current release5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 20198.1, December 20187.4.1.1, 20219.4.0, June 2024Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availablecommercialOpen Source infoBSDcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaCC++
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows
LinuxHP Open VMSLinuxhosted
Linux
Data schemeyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)schema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes
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.noyes infospecific XML type available, but no XML query functionalitynonoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnoyes infoJoin-index to prejoin tables, aggregate index, sparse index, hash index
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyes infostandard, with numerous extensionsyesnoyes infoSQL 2016 + extensions
APIs and other access methodsJDBCADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
C++ API
Java API
.NET Client API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Cobol
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
Perl
PL/1
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.noyes infoUDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallel
Triggersnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardinghorizontal partitioningSharding infoHashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsHadoop integrationnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDyes, on a single nodeyesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
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-tenancyfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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