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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. Faircom DB vs. Percona Server for MySQL vs. RocksDB

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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.

Enhanced drop-in replacement for MySQL based on XtraDB or TokuDB storage engines with improved performance and additional diagnostic and management features.

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	1.97
Rank	#126	Overall
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Score	0.20
Rank	#318	Overall
	#48	Key-value stores
	#141	Relational DBMS

Score	2.03
Rank	#122	Overall
	#57	Relational DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

phoenix.apache.org

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-db

www.percona.com/software/mysql-database/percona-server

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

phoenix.apache.org

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

www.percona.com/downloads/Percona-Server-LATEST

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

FairCom Corporation

Percona

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2014

1979

2008

2013

Current release

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

V12, November 2020

8.0.36-28, 2024

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Restricted, free version available

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

ANSI C, C++

C and C++

C++

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

Data scheme

yes

late-bound, schema-on-read capabilities

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

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI SQL Types, JSON, typed binary structures

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

yes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

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

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

File partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding

Customizable business rules for table partitioning

horizontal partitioning

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
XtraDB Cluster

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

tunable from ACID to Eventually Consistent

ACID

yes

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

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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