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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. Derby vs. Galaxybase vs. SpatiaLite

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Name

Description

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

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platform

Spatial extension of SQLite

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	2.06
Rank	#123	Overall
	#58	Relational DBMS

Score	4.60
Rank	#70	Overall
	#38	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#377	Overall
	#40	Graph DBMS

Score	1.63
Rank	#146	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Website

phoenix.apache.org

db.apache.org/derby

galaxybase.com

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

Technical documentation

phoenix.apache.org

db.apache.org/derby/manuals/index.html

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Chuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司

Alessandro Furieri

Initial release

2014

1997

2017

2008

Current release

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

10.17.1.0, November 2023

Nov 20, November 2021

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C and Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

server-less

Data scheme

yes

late-bound, schema-on-read capabilities

yes

Strong typed schema

yes

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

Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

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

Java

Go
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Java Stored Procedures

user defined procedures and functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

none

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

Relationships in graphs

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role-based access control

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