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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. Dragonfly vs. FoundationDB vs. LokiJS vs. Oracle Coherence

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NameApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Coherence  Xexclude from comparison
Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market. As a consequence, the product was removed from the DB-Engines ranking. In April 2018, Apple open-sourced FoundationDB and it therefore reappears in the ranking.
DescriptionA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseA drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instanceOrdered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.In-memory JavaScript DBMSOracles in-memory data grid solution
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Document storeKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.97
Rank#126  Overall
#59  Relational DBMS
Score0.41
Rank#266  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score1.03
Rank#190  Overall
#31  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#89  Relational DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score1.92
Rank#130  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Websitephoenix.apache.orggithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
github.com/­apple/­foundationdbgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSwww.oracle.com/­java/­coherence
Technical documentationphoenix.apache.orgwww.dragonflydb.io/­docsapple.github.io/­foundationdbtechfort.github.io/­LokiJSdocs.oracle.com/­en/­middleware/­standalone/­coherence
DeveloperApache Software FoundationDragonflyDB team and community contributorsFoundationDBOracle
Initial release20142023201320142007
Current release5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 20191.0, March 20236.2.28, November 202014.1, August 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoBSL 1.1Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Sourcecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++C++JavaScriptJava
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)All OS with a Java VM
Data schemeyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesscheme-freeschema-free infosome layers support schemasschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesstrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysno infosome layers support typingnoyes
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 indexesyesnonoyes infovia viewsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnosupported in specific SQL layer onlynono
APIs and other access methodsJDBCProprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolJavaScript APIJCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C
C#
C++
Clojure
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Tcl
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
JavaScript.Net
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsLuain SQL-layer onlyView functions in JavaScriptno
Triggersnopublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalitynoyesyes infoLive Events
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationyesnoneyes, with selectable consistency level
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsHadoop integrationnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyLinearizable consistencynoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoin SQL-layer onlynono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsACIDno infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleconfigurable
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, strict serializability by the serveryesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yes infooptionally
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-tenancyPassword-based authenticationnonoauthentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

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