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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. Citus vs. Quasardb vs. TerminusDB vs. Tibero

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NameApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonCitus  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparisonTibero  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 PostgreSQLDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationshipsA secure RDBMS, designed for easy portability from Oracle
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSGraph DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeDocument store
RDF store
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Score2.06
Rank#123  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score2.15
Rank#117  Overall
#56  Relational DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Score1.59
Rank#148  Overall
#68  Relational DBMS
Websitephoenix.apache.orgwww.citusdata.comquasar.aiterminusdb.comus.tmaxsoft.com/­products/­tibero
Technical documentationphoenix.apache.orgdocs.citusdata.comdoc.quasar.ai/­masterterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#technet.tmaxsoft.com/­upload/­download/­online/­tibero/­pver-20150504-000002/­index.html
DeveloperApache Software FoundationquasardbDataChemist Ltd.TmaxSoft
Initial release20142010200920182003
Current release5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 20198.1, December 20183.14.1, January 202411.0.0, January 20236, April 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availablecommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoGPL V3commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaCC++Prolog, RustC and Assembler
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows
LinuxBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infointeger and binaryyesyes
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 indexesyesyesyes infowith tagsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyes infostandard, with numerous extensionsSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language (WOQL)yes
APIs and other access methodsJDBCADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
HTTP APIOWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Tibero CLI
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
JavaScript
Python
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Java
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.noyesPersistent Stored Procedure (PSM)
Triggersnoyesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infoconsistent hashingGraph Partitioninghorizontal partitioning infoby range, hash, list or composite
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 extensionsSource-replica replication with selectable replication factorJournaling StreamsMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsHadoop integrationnowith Hadoop integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby using LevelDByes infoin-memory journalingyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes infoTransient modeno infoplanned for next version
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-standardCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailRole-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard (SQL 92, SQL 99)

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