DBMS > Apache Phoenix vs. Graph Engine vs. OpenSearch vs. Sqrrl vs. Tigris

System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. Graph Engine vs. OpenSearch vs. Sqrrl vs. Tigris

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Name

Sqrrl has been acquired by Amazon and became a part of Amazon Web Services. It has been removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engine

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

Adaptable, secure NoSQL built on Apache Accumulo

A horizontally scalable, ACID transactional, document database available both as a fully managed cloud service and for deployment on self-managed infrastructure

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Search engine

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Document store
Key-value store
Search engine
Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	1.97
Rank	#126	Overall
	#59	Relational DBMS

Score	0.61
Rank	#240	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#35	Key-value stores

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	0.02
Rank	#369	Overall
	#51	Document stores
	#55	Key-value stores
	#24	Search engines
	#38	Time Series DBMS

Website

phoenix.apache.org

www.graphengine.io

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

sqrrl.com

www.tigrisdata.com

Technical documentation

phoenix.apache.org

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

opensearch.org/docs/latest

www.tigrisdata.com/docs

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Microsoft

Amazon Web Services

Amazon

originally Sqrrl Data, Inc.

Tigris Data, Inc.

Initial release

2014

2010

2021

2012

2022

Current release

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

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

.NET and C

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

.NET

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

late-bound, schema-on-read capabilities

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

schema-free

yes

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Accumulo Shell
Java API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

CLI Client
gRPC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Actionscript
C

using GLib
C#
C++
Cocoa
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

making use of Hadoop

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

selectable replication factor

making use of Hadoop

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Immediate Consistency

Document store kept consistent with combination of global timestamping, row-level transactions, and server-side consistency resolution.

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic updates per row, document, or graph entity

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storage

yes

yes, using FoundationDB

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

Cell-level Security, Data-Centric Security, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC)

Access rights for users and roles

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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