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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. H2 vs. H2GIS vs. Kinetica vs. TinkerGraph

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NameApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.Spatial extension of H2Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score2.10
Rank#131  Overall
#63  Relational DBMS
Score8.14
Rank#50  Overall
#32  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#360  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#229  Overall
#105  Relational DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#347  Overall
#33  Graph DBMS
Websitephoenix.apache.orgwww.h2database.comwww.h2gis.orgwww.kinetica.comtinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlin
Technical documentationphoenix.apache.orgwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homedocs.kinetica.com
DeveloperApache Software FoundationThomas MuellerCNRSKinetica
Initial release20142005201320122009
Current release5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 20192.2.220, July 20237.1, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)Open Source infoLGPL 3.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJavaC, C++Java
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux
Data schemeyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsno
APIs and other access methodsJDBCJDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
JavaJavaC++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Groovy
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsyes infobased on H2user defined functionsno
Triggersnoyesyesyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenoneShardingnone
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 infobased on H2Source-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsHadoop integrationnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationnone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesyesyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesoptional
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMyes
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 infobased on H2Access rights for users and roles on table levelno

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