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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. Google BigQuery vs. LevelDB vs. OpenTSDB

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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

Embeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string values

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

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	2.25
Rank	#115	Overall
	#19	Key-value stores

Score	1.68
Rank	#142	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Website

phoenix.apache.org

cloud.google.com/bigquery

github.com/google/leveldb

opentsdb.net

Technical documentation

phoenix.apache.org

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

github.com/google/leveldb/blob/main/doc/index.md

opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/index.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Google

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

Initial release

2014

2010

2011

Current release

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

1.23, February 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

LGPL

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

hosted

Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

late-bound, schema-on-read capabilities

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

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

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API
Telnet API

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++
Go
Java

3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Python

3rd party binding

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

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

based on HBase

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

with automatic compression on writes

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

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

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