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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. Derby vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. QuestDB

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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 comparisonQuestDB  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.A high performance open source SQL database for time series data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.02
Rank#130  Overall
#63  Relational DBMS
Score5.30
Rank#66  Overall
#36  Relational DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#374  Overall
#38  Time Series DBMS
Score2.48
Rank#115  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Websitephoenix.apache.orgdb.apache.org/­derbywww.hawkular.orgquestdb.io
Technical documentationphoenix.apache.orgdb.apache.org/­derby/­manuals/­index.htmlwww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidequestdb.io/­docs
DeveloperApache Software FoundationApache Software FoundationCommunity supported by Red HatQuestDB Technology Inc
Initial release2014199720142014
Current release5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 201910.17.1.0, November 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJavaJava (Zero-GC), C++, Rust
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesyesschema-freeyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesnoSQL with time-series extensions
APIs and other access methodsJDBCJDBCHTTP RESTHTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
JavaGo
Java
Python
Ruby
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsJava Stored Proceduresnono
Triggersnoyesyes infovia Hawkular Alertingno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding infobased on Cassandrahorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraSource-replica replication with eventual consistency
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsHadoop integrationnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACID for single-table writes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnoyes infothrough memory mapped files
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-standardno
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Apache PhoenixDerby infooften called Apache Derby, originally IBM Cloudscape; contained in the Java SDK as JavaDBHawkular MetricsQuestDB
Specific characteristicsRelational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantagesHigh ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenariosFinancial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customersBanks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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