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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. H2 vs. InfluxDB vs. Rockset vs. TerarkDB

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NameApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  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.DBMS for storing time series, events and metricsA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDBA key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument storeKey-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSSpatial DBMS infowith GEO packageRelational DBMS
Search engine
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Score2.06
Rank#123  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score8.33
Rank#46  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score24.39
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score0.82
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score0.08
Rank#367  Overall
#56  Key-value stores
Websitephoenix.apache.orgwww.h2database.comwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewrockset.comgithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdb
Technical documentationphoenix.apache.orgwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmldocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbdocs.rockset.combytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc
DeveloperApache Software FoundationThomas MuellerRocksetByteDance, originally Terark
Initial release20142005201320192016
Current release5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 20192.2.220, July 20232.7.6, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)Open Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availablecommercialcommercial inforestricted open source version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaJavaGoC++C++
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
hosted
Data schemeyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesNumeric data and Stringsdynamic typingno
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.nononono infoingestion from XML files supportedno
Secondary indexesyesyesnoall fields are automatically indexedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesSQL-like query languageRead-only SQL queries, including JOINsno
APIs and other access methodsJDBCJDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
HTTP RESTC++ API
Java API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
Java.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsnonono
Triggersnoyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding infoin enterprise version onlyAutomatic shardingnone
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 databaseselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlyyesnone
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 ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes infoDepending on used storage engineyes
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-standardsimple rights management via user accountsAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset consoleno
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Apache PhoenixH2InfluxDBRocksetTerarkDB
Specific characteristicsInfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
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Competitive advantagesTime to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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Typical application scenariosIoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
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Key customersInfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Market metricsFastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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