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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. Firebolt vs. InfinityDB vs. InfluxDB

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NameApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonFirebolt  Xexclude from comparisonInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseHighly scalable cloud data warehouse and analytics product infoForked from ClickhouseA Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interfaceDBMS for storing time series, events and metrics
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO package
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Score1.97
Rank#126  Overall
#59  Relational DBMS
Score1.90
Rank#134  Overall
#62  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#378  Overall
#57  Key-value stores
Score25.83
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Websitephoenix.apache.orgwww.firebolt.ioboilerbay.comwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overview
Technical documentationphoenix.apache.orgdocs.firebolt.ioboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manualdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdb
DeveloperApache Software FoundationFirebolt Analytics Inc.Boiler Bay Inc.
Initial release2014202020022013
Current release5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 20194.02.7.6, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialcommercialOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaGo
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows
hostedAll OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
Data schemeyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesyesyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgradeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arraysNumeric data and Strings
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 indexesyesyesno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesnoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnonono
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding infoin enterprise version only
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
depending on storage layernoneselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version only
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsHadoop integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loadsno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes infoDepending on used storage engine
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancynosimple rights management via user accounts
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Apache PhoenixFireboltInfinityDBInfluxDB
Specific characteristicsInfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
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Competitive advantagesTime to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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Typical application scenariosIoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
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Key customersInfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Market metricsFastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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