DBMS > Apache Phoenix vs. Datomic vs. Google BigQuery vs. Hive vs. IBM Cloudant

System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. Datomic vs. Google BigQuery vs. Hive vs. IBM Cloudant

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Name

Description

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

Datomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durability

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on Hadoop

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

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Score	1.97
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Score	1.59
Rank	#150	Overall
	#69	Relational DBMS

Score	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	61.17
Rank	#18	Overall
	#12	Relational DBMS

Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Website

phoenix.apache.org

www.datomic.com

cloud.google.com/bigquery

hive.apache.org

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

Technical documentation

phoenix.apache.org

docs.datomic.com

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/Home

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Cognitect

Google

Apache Software Foundation

initially developed by Facebook

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Initial release

2014

2012

2010

2012

2010

Current release

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

1.0.6735, June 2023

3.1.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Java, Clojure

Java

Erlang

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Data scheme

yes

late-bound, schema-on-read capabilities

yes

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

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

Clojure
Java

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++
Java
PHP
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Transaction Functions

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

Triggers

By using transaction functions

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

yes

query execution via MapReduce

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

atomic operations within a document possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

recommended only for testing and development

User concepts

Access control

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

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

Access rights for users, groups and roles

Access rights for users can be defined per database

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