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DBMS > Apache Phoenix vs. Galaxybase vs. Heroic vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. Galaxybase vs. Heroic vs. TerarkDB

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NameApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonGalaxybase  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseScalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platformTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchA key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB
Primary database modelRelational DBMSGraph DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value store
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Score2.06
Rank#123  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#377  Overall
#40  Graph DBMS
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#367  Overall
#56  Key-value stores
Websitephoenix.apache.orggalaxybase.comgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicgithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdb
Technical documentationphoenix.apache.orgspotify.github.io/­heroicbytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc
DeveloperApache Software FoundationChuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司SpotifyByteDance, originally Terark
Initial release2014201720142016
Current release5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 2019Nov 20, November 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial inforestricted open source version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaC and JavaJavaC++
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesStrong typed schemaschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesno
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infovia Elasticsearchno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnonono
APIs and other access methodsJDBCBrowser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
C++ API
Java API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
Go
Java
Python
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsuser defined procedures and functionsnono
Triggersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsHadoop integrationnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoRelationships in graphsnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancyRole-based access controlno

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