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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. Graph Engine vs. H2 vs. Pinecone vs. Solr

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NameApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparisonSolr  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseA distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engineFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.A managed, cloud-native vector databaseA widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache Lucene
Primary database modelRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Key-value store
Relational DBMSVector DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.06
Rank#123  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score0.67
Rank#232  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#34  Key-value stores
Score8.33
Rank#46  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score3.23
Rank#92  Overall
#2  Vector DBMS
Score41.02
Rank#24  Overall
#3  Search engines
Websitephoenix.apache.orgwww.graphengine.iowww.h2database.comwww.pinecone.iosolr.apache.org
Technical documentationphoenix.apache.orgwww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmldocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewsolr.apache.org/­resources.html
DeveloperApache Software FoundationMicrosoftThomas MuellerPinecone Systems, IncApache Software Foundation
Initial release20142010200520192006
Current release5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 20192.2.220, July 20239.6.1, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageJava.NET and CJavaJava
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows
.NETAll OS with a Java VMhostedAll OS with a Java VM inforuns as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)
Data schemeyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesyesyesyes infoDynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fields
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesString, Number, Booleanyes infosupports customizable data types and automatic typing
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.nonononoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyesnoSolr Parallel SQL Interface
APIs and other access methodsJDBCRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP APIJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
JavaPython.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyesJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined FunctionsJava plugins
Triggersnonoyesyes infoUser configurable commands triggered on index changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioningnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsHadoop integrationnonospark-solr: github.com/­lucidworks/­spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduce
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDoptimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesoptional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storageyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancyfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes

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