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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. FoundationDB vs. Oracle Coherence vs. SiriDB

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Name

Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market. As a consequence, the product was removed from the DB-Engines ranking. In April 2018, Apple open-sourced FoundationDB and it therefore reappears in the ranking.

Description

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

Ordered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

Open Source Time Series DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

supported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

supported via specific SQL-layer

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	1.90
Rank	#125	Overall
	#59	Relational DBMS

Score	0.97
Rank	#191	Overall
	#32	Document stores
	#28	Key-value stores
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	1.90
Rank	#127	Overall
	#21	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Website

phoenix.apache.org

github.com/apple/foundationdb

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

siridb.com

Technical documentation

phoenix.apache.org

apple.github.io/foundationdb

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

docs.siridb.com

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

FoundationDB

Oracle

Cesbit

Initial release

2014

2013

2007

2017

Current release

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

6.2.28, November 2020

14.1, August 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Data scheme

yes

late-bound, schema-on-read capabilities

schema-free

some layers support schemas

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

some layers support typing

yes

Numeric data

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

supported in specific SQL layer only

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift

.Net
C++
Java

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in SQL-layer only

Triggers

yes

Live Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

yes, with selectable consistency level

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

Linearizable consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

in SQL-layer only

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

configurable

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optionally

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

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

simple rights management via user accounts

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