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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. CouchDB vs. LevelDB vs. Sequoiadb

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NameApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonLevelDB  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  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.Embeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string valuesNewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeKey-value storeDocument store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extension
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.97
Rank#126  Overall
#59  Relational DBMS
Score9.30
Rank#45  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score2.35
Rank#111  Overall
#19  Key-value stores
Score0.45
Rank#261  Overall
#41  Document stores
#122  Relational DBMS
Websitephoenix.apache.orgcouchdb.apache.orggithub.com/­google/­leveldbwww.sequoiadb.com
Technical documentationphoenix.apache.orgdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stablegithub.com/­google/­leveldb/­blob/­main/­doc/­index.mdwww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=index
DeveloperApache Software FoundationApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerGoogleSequoiadb Ltd.
Initial release2014200520112013
Current release5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 20193.3.3, December 20231.23, February 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoBSDOpen Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaErlangC++C++
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows
Android
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnonoyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regex
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 indexesyesyes infovia viewsnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnonoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBCRESTful HTTP/JSON APIproprietary protocol using JSON
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
C++
Go
Java info3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Python info3rd party binding
.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsView functions in JavaScriptnoJavaScript
Triggersnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0noneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsHadoop integrationyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoatomic operations within a single document possiblenoDocument is locked during a transaction
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infowith automatic compression on writesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnono
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 databasenosimple password-based access control

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