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DBMS > Apache Phoenix vs. Elasticsearch vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Prometheus vs. RRDtool

System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. Elasticsearch vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Prometheus vs. RRDtool

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NameApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDB  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseA distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene infoElasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metricCloud-based data warehousing serviceOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemIndustry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database. infoThe data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.97
Rank#126  Overall
#59  Relational DBMS
Score135.35
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score1.30
Rank#164  Overall
#75  Relational DBMS
Score8.42
Rank#47  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
Score1.87
Rank#136  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Websitephoenix.apache.orgwww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2/­warehouseprometheus.iooss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool
Technical documentationphoenix.apache.orgwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmlprometheus.io/­docsoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­doc
DeveloperApache Software FoundationElasticIBMTobias Oetiker
Initial release20142010201420151999
Current release5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 20198.6, January 20231.8.0, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoElastic LicensecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSS
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaGoC infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows
All OS with a Java VMhostedLinux
Windows
HP-UX
Linux
Data schemeyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesNumeric data onlyNumeric data only
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.nonono infoImport/export of XML data possibleno infoImport of XML data possibleno infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possible
Secondary indexesyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query languageyesnono
APIs and other access methodsJDBCJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIin-process shared library
Pipes
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
C infowith librrd library
C# infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Java infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js) infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP infowith a wrapper library
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyesPL/SQL, SQL PLnono
Triggersnoyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesyesyes infoby Federationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsHadoop integrationES-Hadoop Connectornonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, allImmediate Consistencynonenone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes infoby using the rrdcached daemon
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.yesMemcached and Redis integrationyesnoyes
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-standardnono

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