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DBMS > Apache Phoenix vs. Datomic vs. RocksDB vs. SAP IQ

System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. Datomic vs. RocksDB vs. SAP IQ

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NameApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparisonSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQ  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 durabilityEmbeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS infocolumn-oriented
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Score1.90
Rank#125  Overall
#59  Relational DBMS
Score1.55
Rank#144  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score2.84
Rank#97  Overall
#16  Key-value stores
Score2.56
Rank#106  Overall
#52  Relational DBMS
Websitephoenix.apache.orgwww.datomic.comrocksdb.orgwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-iq-big-data-management.html
Technical documentationphoenix.apache.orgdocs.datomic.comgithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wikihelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_IQ
DeveloperApache Software FoundationCognitectFacebook, Inc.SAP, formerly Sybase
Initial release2014201220131994
Current release5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 20191.0.7180, July 20249.4.0, June 202416.1 SPS04, April 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoBSDcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaJava, ClojureC++
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes
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 SQLyesnonoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBCRESTful HTTP APIC++ API
Java API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
Clojure
Java
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyes infoTransaction Functionsnoyes
TriggersnoBy using transaction functionsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peershorizontal partitioningshared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersyesSAP/Sybase Replication Server
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsHadoop integrationnonoHadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDyesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyes
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 developmentyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancynonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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