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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Graphite vs. Heroic vs. HugeGraph

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NameApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Bigtable  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseGoogle's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.Data logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchA fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value store
Wide column store
Time Series DBMSTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
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Score1.97
Rank#126  Overall
#59  Relational DBMS
Score3.26
Rank#92  Overall
#13  Key-value stores
#8  Wide column stores
Score4.57
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#336  Overall
#32  Graph DBMS
Websitephoenix.apache.orgcloud.google.com/­bigtablegithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicgithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
Technical documentationphoenix.apache.orgcloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docsgraphite.readthedocs.iospotify.github.io/­heroichugegraph.apache.org/­docs
DeveloperApache Software FoundationGoogleChris DavisSpotifyBaidu
Initial release20142015200620142018
Current release5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 20190.9
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaPythonJavaJava
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows
hostedLinux
Unix
Linux
macOS
Unix
Data schemeyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoNumeric data onlyyesyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesnonoyes infovia Elasticsearchyes infoalso supports composite index and range index
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnononono
APIs and other access methodsJDBCgRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)
HTTP API
Sockets
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Groovy
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnononoasynchronous Gremlin script jobs
Triggersnonononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnoneShardingyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Internal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zonesnoneyesyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsHadoop integrationyesnonovia hugegraph-spark
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)noneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes infoedges in graph
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDAtomic single-row operationsnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infolockingyesyes
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.yesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancyAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)noUsers, roles and permissions

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