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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. Elasticsearch vs. Heroic vs. RocksDB vs. Tibero

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Name

Description

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

A distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene

Elasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metric

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

A secure RDBMS, designed for easy portability from Oracle

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS

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Score	1.97
Rank	#126	Overall
	#59	Relational DBMS

Score	135.35
Rank	#7	Overall
	#1	Search engines

Score	0.51
Rank	#255	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	1.78
Rank	#140	Overall
	#64	Relational DBMS

Website

phoenix.apache.org

www.elastic.co/elasticsearch

github.com/spotify/heroic

rocksdb.org

us.tmaxsoft.com/products/tibero

Technical documentation

phoenix.apache.org

www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/index.html

spotify.github.io/heroic

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

technet.tmaxsoft.com/upload/download/online/tibero/pver-20150504-000002/index.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Elastic

Spotify

Facebook, Inc.

TmaxSoft

Initial release

2014

2010

2014

2013

2003

Current release

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

8.6, January 2023

8.11.4, April 2024

6, April 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Elastic License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

C and Assembler

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

late-bound, schema-on-read capabilities

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

via Elasticsearch

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Tibero CLI

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Java
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Persistent Stored Procedure (PSM)

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

by range, hash, list or composite

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

ES-Hadoop Connector

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

Memcached and Redis integration

yes

planned for next version

User concepts

Access control

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard (SQL 92, SQL 99)

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