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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. CockroachDB vs. Geode vs. InterSystems IRIS

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NameApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonCockroachDB  Xexclude from comparisonGeode  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems IRIS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseCockroachDB is a distributed database architected for modern cloud applications. It is wire compatible with PostgreSQL and backed by a Key-Value Store, which is either RocksDB or a purpose-built derivative, called Pebble.Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesA containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalability
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeDocument store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
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Score1.90
Rank#125  Overall
#59  Relational DBMS
Score4.74
Rank#67  Overall
#36  Relational DBMS
Score1.51
Rank#147  Overall
#25  Key-value stores
Score2.98
Rank#91  Overall
#17  Document stores
#14  Key-value stores
#1  Object oriented DBMS
#49  Relational DBMS
Websitephoenix.apache.orgwww.cockroachlabs.comgeode.apache.orgwww.intersystems.com/­products/­intersystems-iris
Technical documentationphoenix.apache.orgwww.cockroachlabs.com/­docsgeode.apache.org/­docsdocs.intersystems.com/­irislatest/­csp/­docbook/­DocBook.UI.Page.cls
DeveloperApache Software FoundationCockroach LabsOriginally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.InterSystems
Initial release2014201520022018
Current release5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 201924.1.0, May 20241.1, February 20172023.3, June 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0, commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfirecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaGoJava
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
All OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredAIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows
Data schemeyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesdynamic schemaschema-freedepending on used data model
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyes, wire compatible with PostgreSQLSQL-like query language (OQL)yes
APIs and other access methodsJDBCJDBCJava Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnouser defined functionsyes
Triggersnonoyes infoCache Event Listenersyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning (by key range) infoall tables are translated to an ordered KV store and then broken down into 64MB ranges, which are then used as replicas in RAFTShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication using RAFTMulti-source replicationSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsHadoop integrationnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDyes, on a single nodeACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
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-tenancyRole-based access controlAccess rights per client and object definableyes
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