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DBMS > Apache Phoenix vs. EsgynDB vs. Snowflake vs. SpaceTime vs. SpatiaLite

System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. EsgynDB vs. Snowflake vs. SpaceTime vs. SpatiaLite

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NameApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonEsgynDB  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseEnterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache TrafodionCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured dataSpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.Spatial extension of SQLite
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score2.06
Rank#123  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score0.25
Rank#312  Overall
#138  Relational DBMS
Score130.36
Rank#8  Overall
#5  Relational DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#392  Overall
#8  Spatial DBMS
Score1.63
Rank#146  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Websitephoenix.apache.orgwww.esgyn.cnwww.snowflake.comwww.mireo.com/­spacetimewww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­index
Technical documentationphoenix.apache.orgdocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.htmlwww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.html
DeveloperApache Software FoundationEsgynSnowflake Computing Inc.MireoAlessandro Furieri
Initial release20142015201420202008
Current release5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 20195.0.0, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaC++, JavaC++C++
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows
LinuxhostedLinuxserver-less
Data schemeyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesyesyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)yesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.nonoyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesyesA subset of ANSI SQL is implementedyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBCADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.NetJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
C++
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsJava Stored Proceduresuser defined functionsnono
Triggersnonono infosimilar concept for controling cloud resourcesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingyesFixed-grid hypercubesnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication between multi datacentersyesReal-time block device replication (DRBD)none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsHadoop integrationyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.yesnononoyes
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-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationyesno

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