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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. DuckDB vs. GeoMesa vs. TinkerGraph

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NameApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonDuckDB  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseAn embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMSGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.A lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSGraph DBMS
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Score1.97
Rank#126  Overall
#59  Relational DBMS
Score4.57
Rank#74  Overall
#40  Relational DBMS
Score0.78
Rank#213  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#348  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
Websitephoenix.apache.orgduckdb.orgwww.geomesa.orgtinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlin
Technical documentationphoenix.apache.orgduckdb.org/­docswww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.html
DeveloperApache Software FoundationCCRi and others
Initial release2014201820142009
Current release5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 20190.10, February 20244.0.5, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++ScalaJava
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows
server-less
Data schemeyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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 indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesnono
APIs and other access methodsJDBCArrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C
C# info3rd party driver
C++
Crystal info3rd party driver
Go info3rd party driver
Java
Lisp info3rd party driver
Python
R
Ruby info3rd party driver
Rust
Swift
Zig info3rd party driver
Groovy
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnonono
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonedepending on storage layernone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
nonedepending on storage layernone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsHadoop integrationnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistencydepending on storage layernone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesoptional
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesdepending on storage layeryes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancynoyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageno

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