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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. Cloudflare Workers KV vs. InfinityDB vs. XTDB

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Name

Description

A scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBase

A global, low-latency, key-value store for applications on Cloudflare with exceptionally high read volumes and low-latency.

A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Document store

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Score	1.97
Rank	#126	Overall
	#59	Relational DBMS

Score	0.32
Rank	#283	Overall
	#40	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#378	Overall
	#57	Key-value stores

Score	0.11
Rank	#343	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

phoenix.apache.org

www.cloudflare.com/developer-platform/workers-kv

boilerbay.com

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

phoenix.apache.org

developers.cloudflare.com/kv/api

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Cloudflare

Boiler Bay Inc.

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2014

2018

2002

2019

Current release

5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 2019

4.0

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Clojure

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

yes

late-bound, schema-on-read capabilities

schema-free

yes

nested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical â€˜tuple spaceâ€™ runtime Schema upgrade

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

all Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays

yes, extensible-data-notation format

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

HTTP REST
Proprietary protocol

Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/docs/ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

C
C++
Dart
JavaScript
Kotlin
Python
Rust
Scala

Java

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

none

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

READ-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Optimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancy

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