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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. Google BigQuery vs. mSQL vs. Oracle Coherence

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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

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	58.10
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	1.27
Rank	#169	Overall
	#76	Relational DBMS

Score	1.97
Rank	#129	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Website

phoenix.apache.org

cloud.google.com/bigquery

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

Technical documentation

phoenix.apache.org

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Google

Hughes Technologies

Oracle

Initial release

2014

2010

1994

2007

Current release

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

4.4, October 2021

14.1, August 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

free licenses can be provided

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

yes

late-bound, schema-on-read capabilities

yes

schema-free

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

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

.Net
C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Live Events

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

none

yes, with selectable consistency level

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

none

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

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

configurable

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optionally

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)

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

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