DBMS > Apache Phoenix vs. FatDB vs. GridGain vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. FatDB vs. GridGain vs. RocksDB

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Name

FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.

Description

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

A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.

GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache Ignite

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	2.06
Rank	#123	Overall
	#58	Relational DBMS

Score	1.55
Rank	#150	Overall
	#26	Key-value stores
	#70	Relational DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

phoenix.apache.org

www.gridgain.com

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

phoenix.apache.org

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

FatCloud

GridGain Systems, Inc.

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2014

2012

2007

2013

Current release

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

GridGain 8.5.1

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Java, C++, .Net

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

late-bound, schema-on-read capabilities

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

Via inetgration in SQL Server

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

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings

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

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

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

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

via applications

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

Triggers

yes

via applications

yes (cache interceptors and events)

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

yes (replicated cache)

yes

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

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

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

Can implement custom security layer via applications

Security Hooks for custom implementations

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