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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. DataFS vs. InterSystems IRIS

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Name

Description

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

All data is stored inside objects which are linked by so-called link attributes. Objects consist of classes which can be extended and de-extended at runtime. Graphs can be defined with a struct.

A containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalability

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

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Score	2.85
Rank	#123	Overall
	#62	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#389	Overall
	#21	Object oriented DBMS

Score	3.52
Rank	#106	Overall
	#20	Document stores
	#20	Key-value stores
	#1	Object oriented DBMS
	#52	Relational DBMS

Website

phoenix.apache.org

newdatabase.com

www.intersystems.com/products/intersystems-iris

Technical documentation

phoenix.apache.org

dev.mobiland.com/Overview.xsp

docs.intersystems.com/irislatest/csp/docbook/DocBook.UI.Page.cls

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Mobiland AG

InterSystems

Initial release

2014

2018

Current release

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

1.1.263, October 2022

2021.1, June 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

Windows

AIX
Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

late-bound, schema-on-read capabilities

Classes, Structs, and Lists are written in proprietary DataTypeDefinitionLanguage (.dtdl) and Objects consisting of those are written in proprietary DataAccessDefinitionLanguage (.dadl)

depending on used data model

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

.NET Client API
Proprietary client DLL
WinRT client

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
C
C#
C++
VB.Net

.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

no, except callback-events from server when changes happened

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Proprietary Sharding system

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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

User concepts

Access control

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

Windows-Profile

yes

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