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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. CouchDB vs. HarperDB vs. InfinityDB vs. WakandaDB

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NameApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonHarperDB  Xexclude from comparisonInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparisonWakandaDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseA native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.Ultra-low latency distributed database with an intuitive REST API supporting NoSQL and SQL (including joins). Deployment of functions and databases simultaneously with a consolidated node-level architecture.A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interfaceWakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeDocument storeKey-value storeObject oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extension
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Score2.06
Rank#123  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score8.30
Rank#47  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score0.60
Rank#244  Overall
#38  Document stores
Score0.08
Rank#365  Overall
#55  Key-value stores
Score0.10
Rank#356  Overall
#16  Object oriented DBMS
Websitephoenix.apache.orgcouchdb.apache.orgwww.harperdb.ioboilerbay.comwakanda.github.io
Technical documentationphoenix.apache.orgdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stabledocs.harperdb.io/­docsboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manualwakanda.github.io/­doc
DeveloperApache Software FoundationApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerHarperDBBoiler Bay Inc.Wakanda SAS
Initial release20142005201720022012
Current release5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 20193.3.3, December 20233.1, August 20214.02.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2commercial infofree community edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoAGPLv3, extended commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaErlangNode.jsJavaC++, JavaScript
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows
Android
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
All OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesschema-freedynamic schemayes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgradeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyes infoJSON data typesyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arraysyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesyes infovia viewsyesno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoSQL-like data manipulation statementsnono
APIs and other access methodsJDBCRESTful HTTP/JSON APIJDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket
Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
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
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
JavaJavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsView functions in JavaScriptCustom Functions infosince release 3.1noyes
Triggersnoyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0A table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a clusternonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes infothe nodes on which a table resides can be definednonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsHadoop integrationyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZEDImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoatomic operations within a single document possibleAtomic execution of specific operationsACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loadsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes, using LMDByesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancyAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseAccess rights for users and rolesnoyes

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