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DBMS > Apache Phoenix vs. Cloudflare Workers KV vs. H2GIS vs. HBase vs. Sphinx

System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. Cloudflare Workers KV vs. H2GIS vs. HBase vs. Sphinx

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NameApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonCloudflare Workers KV  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseA global, low-latency, key-value store for applications on Cloudflare with exceptionally high read volumes and low-latency.Spatial extension of H2Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeSpatial DBMSWide column storeSearch engine
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.06
Rank#123  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score0.39
Rank#274  Overall
#39  Key-value stores
Score0.08
Rank#368  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score27.97
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitephoenix.apache.orgwww.cloudflare.com/­developer-platform/­workers-kvwww.h2gis.orghbase.apache.orgsphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationphoenix.apache.orgdevelopers.cloudflare.com/­kv/­apiwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homehbase.apache.org/­book.htmlsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperApache Software FoundationCloudflareCNRSApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release20142018201320082001
Current release5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 20192.3.4, January 20213.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0Open Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJavaC++
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows
hostedLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesschema-freeyesschema-free, schema definition possibleyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesoptions to bring your own types, AVROno
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesnoyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyesnoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBCHTTP REST
Proprietary protocol
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C
C++
Dart
JavaScript
Kotlin
Python
Rust
Scala
JavaC
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnoyes infobased on H2yes infoCoprocessors in Javano
Triggersnonoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesyes infobased on H2Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsHadoop integrationnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)no
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.
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-tenancyyes infobased on H2Access Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACno

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