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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. Faircom DB vs. KeyDB vs. Riak KV

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Name

Description

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

Native high-speed multi-model DBMS for relational and key-value store data simultaneously accessible through SQL and NoSQL APIs.

An ultra-fast, open source Key-value store fully compatible with Redis API, modules, and protocols

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

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Score	1.97
Rank	#126	Overall
	#59	Relational DBMS

Score	0.20
Rank	#318	Overall
	#48	Key-value stores
	#141	Relational DBMS

Score	0.71
Rank	#226	Overall
	#33	Key-value stores

Score	4.10
Rank	#82	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Website

phoenix.apache.org

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-db

github.com/Snapchat/KeyDB
keydb.dev

Technical documentation

phoenix.apache.org

docs.faircom.com/docs/en/UUID-7446ae34-a1a7-c843-c894-d5322e395184.html

docs.keydb.dev

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

FairCom Corporation

EQ Alpha Technology Ltd.

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

2014

1979

2019

2009

Current release

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

V12, November 2020

3.2.0, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Restricted, free version available

Open Source

BSD-3

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

ANSI C, C++

C++

Erlang

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
QNX
SCO
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

easily portable to other OSs

Linux

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

yes

late-bound, schema-on-read capabilities

schema free, schema optional, schema required, partial schema,

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI SQL Types, JSON, typed binary structures

partial

Supported data types are strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets, bit arrays, hyperloglogs and geospatial indexes

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

by using the Redis Search module

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

yes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

ADO.NET
Direct SQL
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful MQTT/JSON API
RPC

Proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protoco

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js and browser)
PHP
Python
Visual Basic

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Crystal
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Fancy
Go
Haskell
Haxe
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Pascal
Perl
PHP
Prolog
Pure Data
Python
R
Rebol
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Swift
Tcl
Visual Basic

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

Lua

Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

File partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding

Customizable business rules for table partitioning

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes, configurable to be parallel or serial, synchronous or asynchronous, uni-directional or bi-directional, ACID-consistent or eventually consistent (with custom conflict resolution).

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

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

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Tunable consistency per server, database, table, and transaction

Eventual Consistency
Strong eventual consistency with CRDTs

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between data sets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

tunable from ACID to Eventually Consistent

Optimistic locking, atomic execution of commands blocks and scripts

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Yes, tunable from durable to delayed durability to in-memory

yes

Configurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logs

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 with additional protections for files

simple password-based access control and ACL

yes, using Riak Security

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