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

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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

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

Apache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

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Score	2.06
Rank	#123	Overall
	#58	Relational DBMS

Score	0.25
Rank	#312	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#366	Overall
	#39	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.11
Rank	#96	Overall
	#15	Key-value stores
	#49	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

phoenix.apache.org

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

apacheignite.readme.io/docs

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Esgyn

Community supported by Red Hat

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2014

2015

2014

2015

Current release

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

Apache Ignite 2.6

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache 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

Java

C++, Java, .Net

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

late-bound, schema-on-read capabilities

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

Supported programming languages

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

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Java Stored Procedures

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

Triggers

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

yes (cache interceptors and events)

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

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

yes (replicated cache)

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

yes

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

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

Immediate Consistency

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

Security Hooks for custom implementations

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