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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. GreptimeDB vs. InfinityDB vs. TerminusDB

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Name

Description

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

An open source Time Series DBMS built for increased scalability, high performance and efficiency

A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

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Trend Chart

Score	1.97
Rank	#126	Overall
	#59	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#352	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#378	Overall
	#57	Key-value stores

Score	0.17
Rank	#325	Overall
	#29	Graph DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

phoenix.apache.org

docs.greptime.com

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Greptime Inc.

Boiler Bay Inc.

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2014

2022

2002

2018

Current release

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

4.0

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Rust

Java

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

Android
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Data scheme

yes

late-bound, schema-on-read capabilities

schema-free, schema definition possible

yes

nested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical â€˜tuple spaceâ€™ runtime Schema upgrade

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

all Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays

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

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

gRPC
HTTP API
JDBC

Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/docs/ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

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

C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript

Java

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Python

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

READ-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Optimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory journaling

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

Simple rights management via user accounts

Role-based access control

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Key customers

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