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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. JaguarDB vs. MySQL

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Name

Description

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

Automatically scaling NoSQL Database as a Service (DBaaS) on the Google Cloud Platform

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

Widely used open source RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	2.06
Rank	#123	Overall
	#58	Relational DBMS

Score	4.36
Rank	#72	Overall
	#12	Document stores

Score	0.06
Rank	#381	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores
	#15	Vector DBMS

Score	1061.34
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Website

phoenix.apache.org

cloud.google.com/datastore

www.jaguardb.com

www.mysql.com

Technical documentation

phoenix.apache.org

cloud.google.com/datastore/docs

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

dev.mysql.com/doc

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Google

DataJaguar, Inc.

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Initial release

2014

2008

2015

1995

Current release

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

3.3 July 2023

8.4.0, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3.0

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

hosted

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

late-bound, schema-on-read capabilities

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, details here

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (GQL)

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

using Google App Engine

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

Callbacks using the Google Apps Engine

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication using Paxos

Multi-source replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

yes

using Google Cloud Dataflow

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on type of query and configuration

Strong Consistency is default for entity lookups and queries within an Entity Group (but can instead be made eventually consistent). Other queries are always eventual consistent.

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

via ReferenceProperties or Ancestor paths

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Serializable Isolation within Transactions, Read Committed outside of Transactions

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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 rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

rights management via user accounts

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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