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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. Datomic vs. Heroic vs. ITTIA vs. LokiJS

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NameApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonITTIA  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchEdge Time Series DBMS with Real-Time Stream ProcessingIn-memory JavaScript DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score1.97
Rank#126  Overall
#59  Relational DBMS
Score1.59
Rank#150  Overall
#69  Relational DBMS
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score0.39
Rank#273  Overall
#24  Time Series DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Websitephoenix.apache.orgwww.datomic.comgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.ittia.comgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJS
Technical documentationphoenix.apache.orgdocs.datomic.comspotify.github.io/­heroictechfort.github.io/­LokiJS
DeveloperApache Software FoundationCognitectSpotifyITTIA L.L.C.
Initial release20142012201420072014
Current release5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 20191.0.6735, June 20238.7
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJava, ClojureJavaC and C++JavaScript
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesyesschema-freeFixed schemaschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesFloat/Blob/Integer/String/Unicode/Date/Time/Timestamp/Intervalno
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infovia Elasticsearchyesyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnonoyesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBCRESTful HTTP APIHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
Clojure
Java
C
C++
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyes infoTransaction FunctionsnoyesView functions in JavaScript
TriggersnoBy using transaction functionsnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersyesyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsHadoop integrationnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
none
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoyesno infoatomic operations within a single collection possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes inforecommended only for testing and developmentnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancynoDatabase file passwordsno

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