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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. Ehcache vs. JanusGraph vs. RethinkDB vs. SwayDB

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NameApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonJanusGraph infosuccessor of Titan  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseA widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage optionsA Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters infoIt was forked from the latest code base of Titan in January 2017DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeGraph DBMSDocument storeKey-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score1.97
Rank#126  Overall
#59  Relational DBMS
Score4.89
Rank#67  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Score1.94
Rank#129  Overall
#12  Graph DBMS
Score2.74
Rank#105  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Websitephoenix.apache.orgwww.ehcache.orgjanusgraph.orgrethinkdb.comswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationphoenix.apache.orgwww.ehcache.org/­documentationdocs.janusgraph.orgrethinkdb.com/­docs
DeveloperApache Software FoundationTerracotta Inc, owned by Software AGLinux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by AureliusThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017Simer Plaha
Initial release20142009201720092018
Current release5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 20193.10.0, March 20220.6.3, February 20232.4.1, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJavaC++Scala
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometryno
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnononono
APIs and other access methodsJDBCJCacheJava API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
JavaClojure
Java
Python
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnoyesno
Triggersnoyes infoCache Event ListenersyesClient-side triggers through changefeedsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoby using Terracotta Serveryes infodepending on the used storage backend (e.g. Cassandra, HBase, BerkeleyDB)Sharding inforange basednone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes infoby using Terracotta ServeryesSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsHadoop integrationnoyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engineyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyTunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infoRelationships in graphsnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyes infosupports JTA and can work as an XA resourceACIDAtomic single-document operationsAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoMVCC basedyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing a tiered cache-storage approachyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcastyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancynoUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Serveryes infousers and table-level permissionsno

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