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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. Datastax Enterprise vs. IRONdb vs. mSQL

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NameApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonDatastax Enterprise  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseDataStax Enterprise (DSE) is the always-on, scalable data platform built on Apache Cassandra and designed for hybrid Cloud. DSE integrates graph, search, analytics, administration, developer tooling, and monitoring into a unified platform.A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicitymSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSWide column storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.06
Rank#123  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score5.93
Rank#56  Overall
#4  Wide column stores
Score1.27
Rank#169  Overall
#76  Relational DBMS
Websitephoenix.apache.orgwww.datastax.com/­products/­datastax-enterprisewww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/hughestech.com.au/­products/­msql
Technical documentationphoenix.apache.orgdocs.datastax.comdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started
DeveloperApache Software FoundationDataStaxCirconus LLC.Hughes Technologies
Initial release2014201120171994
Current release5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 20196.8, April 2020V0.10.20, January 20184.4, October 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialcommercialcommercial infofree licenses can be provided
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC and C++C
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
LinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Data schemeyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyes
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 indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL); Spark SQLSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers
APIs and other access methodsJDBCProprietary protocol infoCQL (Cassandra Query Language)
TinkerPop Gremlin infowith DSE Graph
HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnoyes, in Luano
Triggersnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infono "single point of failure"Automatic, metric affinity per nodenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
configurable replication factor, datacenter aware, advanced replication for edge computingconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awarenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsHadoop integrationyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency infoconsistency level can be individually decided with each write operation
Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesnone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnono
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 objectnono
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Specific characteristicsDataStax Enterprise is scale-out data infrastructure for enterprises that need to...
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Competitive advantagesSupporting the following application requirements: Zero downtime - Built on Apache...
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Typical application scenariosApplications that must be massively and linearly scalable with 100% uptime and able...
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Key customersCapital One, Cisco, Comcast, eBay, McDonald's, Microsoft, Safeway, Sony, UBS, and...
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Market metricsAmong the Forbes 100 Most Innovative Companies, DataStax is trusted by 5 of the top...
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Licensing and pricing modelsAnnual subscription
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