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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. CouchDB vs. GigaSpaces vs. InfinityDB vs. OpenSearch

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Name

Description

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

A native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.

High performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented Transactions

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

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Values are user defined objects

Key-value store

Search engine

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

using the Geocouch extension

Graph DBMS
Search engine

Vector DBMS

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Score	8.30
Rank	#47	Overall
	#7	Document stores

Score	1.03
Rank	#188	Overall
	#32	Document stores
	#6	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#365	Overall
	#55	Key-value stores

Score	16.03
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Website

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

Technical documentation

phoenix.apache.org

docs.couchdb.org/en/stable

docs.gigaspaces.com/latest/landing.html

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

opensearch.org/docs/latest

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developer

Gigaspaces Technologies

Boiler Bay Inc.

Amazon Web Services

Initial release

2014

2005

2000

2002

2021

Current release

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

3.3.3, December 2023

15.5, September 2020

4.0

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial licenses available

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Erlang

Java, C++, .Net

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

Android
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

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

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

yes

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.

XML can be used for describing objects metadata

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

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

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-99 for query and DML statements

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

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

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

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

C
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk

.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala

Java

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

View functions in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

yes, event driven architecture

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

improved architecture with release 2.0

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

synchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication

synchronous or asynchronous

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

yes

Map-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executors

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANY

Immediate Consistency

READ-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

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

atomic operations within a single document possible

ACID

Optimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

strategy: optimistic locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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

Access rights for users can be defined per database

Role-based access control

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