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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. CockroachDB vs. IRONdb vs. PostGIS vs. TigerGraph

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NameApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonCockroachDB  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonTigerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
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.A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicitySpatial extension of PostgreSQLA complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMSGraph DBMS
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
Score5.73
Rank#58  Overall
#34  Relational DBMS
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score1.80
Rank#138  Overall
#13  Graph DBMS
Websitephoenix.apache.orgwww.cockroachlabs.comwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/postgis.netwww.tigergraph.com
Technical documentationphoenix.apache.orgwww.cockroachlabs.com/­docsdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedpostgis.net/­documentationdocs.tigergraph.com
DeveloperApache Software FoundationCockroach LabsCirconus LLC.
Initial release20142015201720052017
Current release5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 201924.1.0, May 2024V0.10.20, January 20183.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0, commercial license availablecommercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaGoC and C++CC++
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
LinuxLinux
Data schemeyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesdynamic schemaschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyesyes
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.nononoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyes, wire compatible with PostgreSQLSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)yesSQL-like query language (GSQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBCJDBCHTTP APIGSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON 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
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnoyes, in Luauser defined functionsyes
Triggersnononoyesno
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 RAFTAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeyes infobased on PostgreSQL
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication using RAFTconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareyes infobased on PostgreSQL
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsHadoop integrationnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyesyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnononono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancyRole-based access controlnoyes infobased on PostgreSQLRole-based access control

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