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DBMS > Apache Phoenix vs. Derby vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Oracle Coherence vs. TimescaleDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. Derby vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Oracle Coherence vs. TimescaleDB

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NameApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonDerby infooften called Apache Derby, originally IBM Cloudscape; contained in the Java SDK as JavaDB  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Coherence  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.Oracles in-memory data grid solutionA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score2.06
Rank#123  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score4.60
Rank#70  Overall
#38  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#366  Overall
#39  Time Series DBMS
Score1.97
Rank#129  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Score4.46
Rank#71  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Websitephoenix.apache.orgdb.apache.org/­derbywww.hawkular.orgwww.oracle.com/­java/­coherencewww.timescale.com
Technical documentationphoenix.apache.orgdb.apache.org/­derby/­manuals/­index.htmlwww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidedocs.oracle.com/­en/­middleware/­standalone/­coherencedocs.timescale.com
DeveloperApache Software FoundationApache Software FoundationCommunity supported by Red HatOracleTimescale
Initial release20141997201420072017
Current release5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 201910.17.1.0, November 202314.1, August 20232.15.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJavaJavaC
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesnumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types
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.noyesnonoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesnonoyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntax
APIs and other access methodsJDBCJDBCHTTP RESTJCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
JavaGo
Java
Python
Ruby
.Net
C++
Java
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsJava Stored Proceduresnonouser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell
Triggersnoyesyes infovia Hawkular Alertingyes infoLive Eventsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding infobased on CassandraShardingyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayes, with selectable consistency levelSource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas info
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsHadoop integrationnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoconfigurableACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infooptionallyyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancyfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoauthentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authenticationfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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