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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. Drizzle vs. Hypertable vs. InfinityDB

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Name

Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

A scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBase

MySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.

An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as Hadoop

A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Key-value store

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Score	1.97
Rank	#126	Overall
	#59	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#378	Overall
	#57	Key-value stores

Website

phoenix.apache.org

boilerbay.com

Technical documentation

phoenix.apache.org

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Hypertable Inc.

Boiler Bay Inc.

Initial release

2014

2008

2009

2002

Current release

5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 2019

7.2.4, September 2012

0.9.8.11, March 2016

4.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GNU GPL

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

yes

late-bound, schema-on-read capabilities

yes

schema-free

yes

nested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical â€˜tuple spaceâ€™ runtime Schema upgrade

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

all Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

only exact value or prefix value scans

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

C++ API
Thrift

Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/docs/ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

C
C++
Java
PHP

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor on file system level

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

READ-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Optimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancy

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

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