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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. Dgraph vs. DuckDB vs. EsgynDB vs. LokiJS

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NameApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonDuckDB  Xexclude from comparisonEsgynDB  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseDistributed and scalable native Graph DBMSAn embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMSEnterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache TrafodionIn-memory JavaScript DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSGraph DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
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Score2.06
Rank#123  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score1.53
Rank#152  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score4.63
Rank#69  Overall
#37  Relational DBMS
Score0.25
Rank#312  Overall
#138  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Websitephoenix.apache.orgdgraph.ioduckdb.orgwww.esgyn.cngithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJS
Technical documentationphoenix.apache.orgdgraph.io/­docsduckdb.org/­docstechfort.github.io/­LokiJS
DeveloperApache Software FoundationDgraph Labs, Inc.Esgyn
Initial release20142016201820152014
Current release5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 20191.0.0, June 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMIT LicensecommercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaGoC++C++, JavaJavaScript
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
server-lessLinuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
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 indexesyesyesyesyesyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyesyesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBCGraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
Arrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C# info3rd party driver
C++
Crystal info3rd party driver
Go info3rd party driver
Java
Lisp info3rd party driver
Python
R
Ruby info3rd party driver
Rust
Swift
Zig info3rd party driver
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.NetJavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnonoJava Stored ProceduresView functions in JavaScript
Triggersnonononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyesnoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Synchronous replication via RaftnoneMulti-source replication between multi datacentersnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsHadoop integrationnonoyesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACIDno infoatomic operations within a single collection possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes 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.yesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancyno infoPlanned for future releasesnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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