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DBMS > Apache Phoenix vs. Dragonfly vs. GigaSpaces vs. HEAVY.AI vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. Dragonfly vs. GigaSpaces vs. HEAVY.AI vs. SWC-DB

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NameApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonGigaSpaces  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  Xexclude from comparison
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 instanceHigh performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented TransactionsA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeDocument store
Object oriented DBMS infoValues are user defined objects
Relational DBMSWide column store
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
Search engine
Spatial DBMSTime Series DBMS
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Score2.06
Rank#123  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#261  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score1.03
Rank#188  Overall
#32  Document stores
#6  Object oriented DBMS
Score1.64
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#364  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Websitephoenix.apache.orggithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
www.gigaspaces.comgithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
github.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
Technical documentationphoenix.apache.orgwww.dragonflydb.io/­docsdocs.gigaspaces.com/­latest/­landing.htmldocs.heavy.ai
DeveloperApache Software FoundationDragonflyDB team and community contributorsGigaspaces TechnologiesHEAVY.AI, Inc.Alex Kashirin
Initial release20142023200020162020
Current release5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 20191.0, March 202315.5, September 20205.10, January 20220.5, April 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoBSL 1.1Open Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availableOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++Java, C++, .NetC++ and CUDAC++
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows
LinuxLinux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinux
Data schemeyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesscheme-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesstrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysyesyes
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.nonono infoXML can be used for describing objects metadatanono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoSQL-99 for query and DML statementsyesSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBCProprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolGigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
Proprietary protocol
Thrift
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++
Java
Python
Scala
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
C++
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsLuayesnono
Triggersnopublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalityyes, event driven architecturenono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infoRound robinSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationMulti-source replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Multi-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsHadoop integrationnoyes infoMap-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executorsnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANYImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, strict serializability by the serveryesyesyes
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.yesyesyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancyPassword-based authenticationRole-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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