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

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NameApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonCockroachDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonTigerGraph  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  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.Spatial extension of PostgreSQLA complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-timeA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSGraph DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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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
Score0.18
Rank#332  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websitephoenix.apache.orgwww.cockroachlabs.compostgis.netwww.tigergraph.comgithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationphoenix.apache.orgwww.cockroachlabs.com/­docspostgis.net/­documentationdocs.tigergraph.comwww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperApache Software FoundationCockroach LabsJuxt Ltd.
Initial release20142015200520172019
Current release5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 201924.1.0, May 20243.4.2, February 20241.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0, commercial license availableOpen Source infoGPL v2.0commercialOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaGoCC++Clojure
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
LinuxAll OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesdynamic schemayesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes, extensible-data-notation format
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.nonoyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyes, wire compatible with PostgreSQLyesSQL-like query language (GSQL)limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsJDBCJDBCGSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
C++
Java
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnouser defined functionsyesno
Triggersnonoyesnono
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 RAFTyes infobased on PostgreSQLnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication using RAFTyes infobased on PostgreSQLyes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsHadoop integrationnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesyes infoRelationships in graphsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancyRole-based access controlyes infobased on PostgreSQLRole-based access control

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