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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. H2 vs. InfinityDB vs. Oracle Coherence

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Name

Description

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

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

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

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.97
Rank	#126	Overall
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Score	8.13
Rank	#49	Overall
	#31	Relational DBMS

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

Score	1.92
Rank	#130	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Website

phoenix.apache.org

www.h2database.com

boilerbay.com

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

Technical documentation

phoenix.apache.org

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Thomas Mueller

Boiler Bay Inc.

Oracle

Initial release

2014

2005

2002

2007

Current release

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

2.2.220, July 2023

4.0

14.1, August 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

yes

late-bound, schema-on-read capabilities

yes

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

schema-free

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

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

JDBC
ODBC

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

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

Java

.Net
C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

Triggers

yes

Live Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

none

yes, with selectable consistency level

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

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

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

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Optimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads

configurable

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optionally

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

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

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