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DBMS > Apache Phoenix vs. EDB Postgres vs. GeoSpock vs. Pinecone

System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. EDB Postgres vs. GeoSpock vs. Pinecone

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NameApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonEDB Postgres  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseThe EDB Postgres Platform is an enterprise-class data management platform based on the open source database PostgreSQL with flexible deployment options and Oracle compatibility features, complemented by tool kits for management, integration, and migration.Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleA managed, cloud-native vector database
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score1.90
Rank#125  Overall
#59  Relational DBMS
Score1.86
Rank#131  Overall
#61  Relational DBMS
Score3.02
Rank#87  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Websitephoenix.apache.orgwww.enterprisedb.comgeospock.comwww.pinecone.io
Technical documentationphoenix.apache.orgwww.enterprisedb.com/­docsdocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overview
DeveloperApache Software FoundationEnterpriseDBGeoSpockPinecone Systems, Inc
Initial release201420052019
Current release5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 201914, December 20212.0, September 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infoBSD for PostgreSQL-componentscommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesyes
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Implementation languageJavaCJava, Javascript
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows
Linux
Windows
hostedhosted
Data schemeyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesString, Number, Boolean
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.noyes infospecific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.nono
Secondary indexesyesyestemporal, categorical
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyes infostandard with numerous extensionsANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)no
APIs and other access methodsJDBCADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
JDBCRESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.no
Triggersnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning infoby hash, list or rangeAutomatic sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsHadoop integrationnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancyfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users can be defined per table

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