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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. CockroachDB vs. Geode vs. Transbase

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NameApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonCockroachDB  Xexclude from comparisonGeode  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  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 resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS
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Score1.97
Rank#126  Overall
#59  Relational DBMS
Score6.15
Rank#55  Overall
#33  Relational DBMS
Score1.92
Rank#131  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score0.11
Rank#341  Overall
#150  Relational DBMS
Websitephoenix.apache.orgwww.cockroachlabs.comgeode.apache.orgwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationphoenix.apache.orgwww.cockroachlabs.com/­docsgeode.apache.org/­docswww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperApache Software FoundationCockroach LabsOriginally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.Transaction Software GmbH
Initial release2014201520021987
Current release5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 201923.1.1, May 20231.1, February 2017Transbase 8.3, 2022
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 infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaGoJavaC and C++
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
All OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesdynamic schemaschema-freeyes
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.nononono
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
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native 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
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
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 RAFTSharding
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 nodeyes
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.yesnoyesno
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 definablefine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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