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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. Google BigQuery vs. YottaDB

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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

A fast and solid embedded Key-value store

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

using the Octo plugin

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Score	1.90
Rank	#121	Overall
	#59	Relational DBMS

Score	52.29
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#301	Overall
	#44	Key-value stores

Website

phoenix.apache.org

cloud.google.com/bigquery

yottadb.com

Technical documentation

phoenix.apache.org

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

yottadb.com/resources/documentation

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Google

YottaDB, LLC

Initial release

2014

2010

2001

Current release

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

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

AGPL 3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

hosted

Docker
Linux

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

by using the Octo plugin

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

PostgreSQL wire protocol

using the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

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

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

optimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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)

Users and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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