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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. Dgraph vs. jBASE vs. PouchDB vs. Stardog

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NameApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonStardog  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseDistributed and scalable native Graph DBMSA robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middlewareJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBEnterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualization
Primary database modelRelational DBMSGraph DBMSMultivalue DBMSDocument storeGraph DBMS
RDF store
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Score2.06
Rank#123  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score1.53
Rank#152  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score1.49
Rank#156  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Score2.34
Rank#112  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score2.07
Rank#122  Overall
#11  Graph DBMS
#6  RDF stores
Websitephoenix.apache.orgdgraph.iowww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbasepouchdb.comwww.stardog.com
Technical documentationphoenix.apache.orgdgraph.io/­docsdocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9pouchdb.com/­guidesdocs.stardog.com
DeveloperApache Software FoundationDgraph Labs, Inc.Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)Apache Software FoundationStardog-Union
Initial release20142016199120122010
Current release5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 20195.77.1.1, June 20197.3.0, May 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Sourcecommercial info60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/students
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaGoJavaScriptJava
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
AIX
Linux
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesoptionalnoyes
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.nonoyesnono infoImport/export of XML data possible
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infovia viewsyes infosupports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatial
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASICnoYes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Server
APIs and other access methodsJDBCGraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
JavaScript.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnoyesView functions in JavaScriptuser defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Java
Triggersnonoyesyesyes infovia event handlers
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyesShardingSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Synchronous replication via RaftyesMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Multi-source replication in HA-Cluster
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsHadoop integrationnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in HA-Cluster
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes inforelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancyno infoPlanned for future releasesAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelnoAccess rights for users and roles

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