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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. EXASOL vs. Hazelcast vs. InfluxDB vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search

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NameApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonHazelcast  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.A widely adopted in-memory data gridDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app development
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsDocument store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12Spatial DBMS infowith GEO packageVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.06
Rank#123  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score1.76
Rank#139  Overall
#62  Relational DBMS
Score5.46
Rank#61  Overall
#7  Key-value stores
Score24.39
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score5.52
Rank#59  Overall
#6  Search engines
Websitephoenix.apache.orgwww.exasol.comhazelcast.comwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­search
Technical documentationphoenix.apache.orgwww.exasol.com/­resourceshazelcast.org/­imdg/­docsdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdblearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­search
DeveloperApache Software FoundationExasolHazelcastMicrosoft
Initial release20142000200820132015
Current release5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 20195.3.6, November 20232.7.6, April 2024V1
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
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Implementation languageJavaJavaGo
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
hosted
Data schemeyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesNumeric data and Stringsyes
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.nonoyes infothe object must implement a serialization strategynono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesSQL-like query languageSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
Java
Lua
Python
R
.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsuser defined functionsyes infoEvent Listeners, Executor Servicesnono
Triggersnoyesyes infoEventsnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingSharding infoin enterprise version onlySharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes infoReplicated Mapselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlyyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsHadoop integrationyes infoHadoop integrationyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus AlgorithmImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commitednono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.yesyesyesyes infoDepending on used storage engineno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancyAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardRole-based access controlsimple rights management via user accountsyes infousing Azure authentication
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Competitive advantagesTime to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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Key customersInfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Market metricsFastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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