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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. EsgynDB vs. GreptimeDB vs. Hawkular Metrics

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Name

Description

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

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

An open source Time Series DBMS built for increased scalability, high performance and efficiency

Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	2.06
Rank	#123	Overall
	#58	Relational DBMS

Score	0.25
Rank	#312	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Score	0.12
Rank	#351	Overall
	#34	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#366	Overall
	#39	Time Series DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

phoenix.apache.org

docs.greptime.com

www.hawkular.org/hawkular-metrics/docs/user-guide

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Esgyn

Greptime Inc.

Community supported by Red Hat

Initial release

2014

2015

2022

2014

Current release

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

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++, Java

Rust

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

Linux

Android
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

late-bound, schema-on-read capabilities

yes

schema-free, schema definition possible

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

gRPC
HTTP API
JDBC

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

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

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Java Stored Procedures

Python

Triggers

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

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

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

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

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

Simple rights management via user accounts

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Key customers

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Licensing and pricing models

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