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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. Dgraph vs. gStore vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. Postgres-XL

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NameApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonDgraph  Xexclude from comparisongStore  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems IRIS  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseDistributed and scalable native Graph DBMSA native Graph DBMS to store and maintain very large RDF datasets.A containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalabilityBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features
Primary database modelRelational DBMSGraph DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Document store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score2.06
Rank#123  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score1.53
Rank#152  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#342  Overall
#34  Graph DBMS
#16  RDF stores
Score3.54
Rank#84  Overall
#14  Document stores
#10  Key-value stores
#1  Object oriented DBMS
#45  Relational DBMS
Score0.53
Rank#254  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Websitephoenix.apache.orgdgraph.ioen.gstore.cnwww.intersystems.com/­products/­intersystems-iriswww.postgres-xl.org
Technical documentationphoenix.apache.orgdgraph.io/­docsen.gstore.cn/­#/­enDocsdocs.intersystems.com/­irislatest/­csp/­docbook/­DocBook.UI.Page.clswww.postgres-xl.org/­documentation
DeveloperApache Software FoundationDgraph Labs, Inc.InterSystems
Initial release20142016201620182014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB
Current release5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 20191.2, November 20232023.3, June 202310 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoBSDcommercialOpen Source infoMozilla public license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaGoC++C
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxAIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesschema-freeschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportdepending on used data modelyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.nononoyesyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionality
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnonoyesyes infodistributed, parallel query execution
APIs and other access methodsJDBCGraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
JDBC
ODBC
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
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnoyesyesuser defined functions
Triggersnonoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyesShardinghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Synchronous replication via RaftSource-replica replication
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 ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDyesACIDACID infoMVCC
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancyno infoPlanned for future releasesUsers, roles and permissions, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) supportedyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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