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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. Google BigQuery vs. Kinetica vs. NSDb

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Name

Description

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

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	2.06
Rank	#123	Overall
	#58	Relational DBMS

Score	58.10
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	0.66
Rank	#234	Overall
	#107	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#369	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Website

phoenix.apache.org

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.kinetica.com

nsdb.io

Technical documentation

phoenix.apache.org

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

docs.kinetica.com

nsdb.io/Architecture

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Google

Kinetica

Initial release

2014

2010

2012

2017

Current release

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

7.1, August 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C, C++

Java, Scala

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

hosted

Linux

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

late-bound, schema-on-read capabilities

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

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

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Java
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

triggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

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

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Using Apache Lucene

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

GPU vRAM or System RAM

User concepts

Access control

Access Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancy

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

Access rights for users and roles on table level

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