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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. EJDB vs. mSQL vs. Percona Server for MongoDB

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Name

Description

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

Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

A drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.

Primary database model

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Score	2.06
Rank	#123	Overall
	#58	Relational DBMS

Score	0.31
Rank	#296	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	1.27
Rank	#169	Overall
	#76	Relational DBMS

Score	0.60
Rank	#246	Overall
	#39	Document stores

Website

phoenix.apache.org

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

www.percona.com/mongodb/software/percona-server-for-mongodb

Technical documentation

phoenix.apache.org

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb/blob/master/README.md

docs.percona.com/percona-distribution-for-mongodb

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Softmotions

Hughes Technologies

Percona

Initial release

2014

2012

1994

2015

Current release

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

4.4, October 2021

3.4.10-2.10, November 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPLv2

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

GPL Version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

server-less

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

late-bound, schema-on-read capabilities

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

in-process shared library

JDBC
ODBC

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

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

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

JavaScript

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

Source-replica replication

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

none

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/Write Locking

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

via In-Memory Engine

User concepts

Access control

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

Access rights for users and roles

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