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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. Geode vs. JSqlDb vs. MonetDB

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Name

JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processes

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.90
Rank	#125	Overall
	#59	Relational DBMS

Score	1.51
Rank	#147	Overall
	#25	Key-value stores

Score	1.72
Rank	#135	Overall
	#62	Relational DBMS

Website

phoenix.apache.org

geode.apache.org

jsqldb.org (offline)

www.monetdb.org

Technical documentation

phoenix.apache.org

geode.apache.org/docs

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Originally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.

Konrad von Backstrom

MonetDB BV

Initial release

2014

2002

2018

2004

Current release

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

1.1, February 2017

0.8, December 2018

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

Linux
macOS
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

late-bound, schema-on-read capabilities

schema-free

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (OQL)

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala

JavaScript

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

functions in JavaScript

yes, in SQL, C, R

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding via remote tables

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes, on a single node

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using RocksDB

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

Access rights per client and object definable

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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