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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. Greenplum vs. Hazelcast vs. IRONdb vs. Snowflake

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Name

IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

Analytic Database platform built on PostgreSQL. Full name is Pivotal Greenplum Database

A logical database in Greenplum is an array of individual PostgreSQL databases working together to present a single database image.

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

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Trend Chart

Score	2.06
Rank	#123	Overall
	#58	Relational DBMS

Score	8.08
Rank	#48	Overall
	#31	Relational DBMS

Score	5.46
Rank	#61	Overall
	#7	Key-value stores

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

phoenix.apache.org

greenplum.org

hazelcast.com

www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

phoenix.apache.org

docs.greenplum.org

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

docs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Pivotal Software Inc.

Hazelcast

Circonus LLC.

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2014

2005

2008

2017

2014

Current release

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

7.0.0, September 2023

5.3.6, November 2023

V0.10.20, January 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

yes

late-bound, schema-on-read capabilities

yes

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

text, numeric, histograms

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

since Version 4.2

yes

the object must implement a serialization strategy

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

JDBC
ODBC

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

yes, in Lua

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Events

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Automatic, metric affinity per node

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

yes

Replicated Map

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

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

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user

Raft Consensus Algorithm

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

one or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commited

ACID

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role-based access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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