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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. EventStoreDB vs. Spark SQL vs. SurrealDB vs. TerminusDB

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NameApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonEventStoreDB  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseIndustrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMSScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelRelational DBMSEvent StoreRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Graph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
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Score2.06
Rank#123  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score1.19
Rank#173  Overall
#1  Event Stores
Score18.04
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score1.02
Rank#190  Overall
#33  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Websitephoenix.apache.orgwww.eventstore.comspark.apache.org/­sqlsurrealdb.comterminusdb.com
Technical documentationphoenix.apache.orgdevelopers.eventstore.comspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.htmlsurrealdb.com/­docsterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperApache Software FoundationEvent Store LimitedApache Software FoundationSurrealDB LtdDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release20142012201420222018
Current release5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 201921.2, February 20213.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023v1.5.0, May 202411.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open SourceOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScalaRustProlog, Rust
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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
Secondary indexesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBCJDBC
ODBC
GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
Java
Python
R
Scala
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnoyes
Triggersnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyes, utilizing Spark CoreGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsHadoop integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancynoyes, based on authentication and database rulesRole-based access control

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