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DBMS > Apache Phoenix vs. Geode vs. MonetDB vs. Transbase vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. Geode vs. MonetDB vs. Transbase vs. VelocityDB

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NameApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonGeode  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseGeode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesA relational database management system that stores data in columnsA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMSA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score1.97
Rank#126  Overall
#59  Relational DBMS
Score1.92
Rank#131  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score1.72
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#341  Overall
#150  Relational DBMS
Score0.05
Rank#358  Overall
#36  Graph DBMS
#16  Object oriented DBMS
Websitephoenix.apache.orggeode.apache.orgwww.monetdb.orgwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.htmlvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationphoenix.apache.orggeode.apache.org/­docswww.monetdb.org/­Documentationwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.htmlvelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperApache Software FoundationOriginally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.MonetDB BVTransaction Software GmbHVelocityDB Inc
Initial release20142002200419872011
Current release5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 20191.1, February 2017Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023Transbase 8.3, 20227.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as GemfireOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0commercial infofree development licensecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaCC and C++C#
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows
All OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Any that supports .NET
Data schemeyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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 indexesyesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query language (OQL)yes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsyesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBCJava Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
.Net
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsuser defined functionsyes, in SQL, C, Ryesno
Triggersnoyes infoCache Event ListenersyesyesCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding via remote tablesSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replicationnone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsHadoop integrationnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyes, on a single nodeACIDyesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
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-tenancyAccess rights per client and object definablefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardBased on Windows Authentication

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