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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. DolphinDB vs. Hive vs. IBM Cloudant vs. QuestDB

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NameApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonDolphinDB  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseDolphinDB is a high performance Time Series DBMS. It is integrated with an easy-to-use fully featured programming language and a high-volume high-velocity streaming analytics system. It offers operational simplicity, scalability, fault tolerance, and concurrency.data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBA high performance open source SQL database for time series data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.97
Rank#126  Overall
#59  Relational DBMS
Score4.13
Rank#80  Overall
#6  Time Series DBMS
Score61.17
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score2.52
Rank#109  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Websitephoenix.apache.orgwww.dolphindb.comhive.apache.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantquestdb.io
Technical documentationphoenix.apache.orgdocs.dolphindb.cn/­en/­help200/­index.htmlcwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homecloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantquestdb.io/­docs
DeveloperApache Software FoundationDolphinDB, IncApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014QuestDB Technology Inc
Initial release20142018201220102014
Current release5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 2019v2.00.4, January 20223.1.3, April 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infofree community version availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaC++JavaErlangJava (Zero-GC), C++, Rust
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows
Linux
Windows
All OS with a Java VMhostedLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesyesyesschema-freeyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query languageSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoSQL with time-series extensions
APIs and other access methodsJDBCJDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust
C++
Java
PHP
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyesyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptno
Triggersnononoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioningShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesselectable replication factorMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replication with eventual consistency
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsHadoop integrationyesyes infoquery execution via MapReduceyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyesnono infoatomic operations within a document possibleACID for single-table writes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoOptimistic lockingyes
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.yesyesnoyes infothrough memory mapped files
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancyAdministrators, Users, GroupsAccess rights for users, groups and rolesAccess rights for users can be defined per database
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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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