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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. Coveo vs. GeoMesa vs. InfinityDB

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Name

Description

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

AI-powered hosted search, recommendation and personalization platform providing tools for both low-code and full-code development

GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.

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

Primary database model

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Website

Technical documentation

phoenix.apache.org

docs.coveo.com

www.geomesa.org/documentation/stable/user/index.html

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Coveo

CCRi and others

Boiler Bay Inc.

Initial release

2014

2012

2014

2002

Current release

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

5.0.0, May 2024

4.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

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Implementation language

Java

Scala

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

yes

late-bound, schema-on-read capabilities

hybrid - fields need to be configured prior to indexing, but relationships can be exploited at query time without pre-configuration

yes

nested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical â€˜tuple spaceâ€™ runtime Schema upgrade

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

RESTful HTTP API

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

Supported programming languages

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

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

depending on storage layer

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

depending on storage layer

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

depending on storage layer

Immediate Consistency

READ-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

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

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

yes

ACID

Optimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

depending on storage layer

User concepts

Access control

Access Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancy

granular access controls, API key management, content filters

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

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