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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. HBase vs. PouchDB vs. Sequoiadb vs. TerminusDB

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NameApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBNewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQLScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelRelational DBMSWide column storeDocument storeDocument store
Relational DBMS
Graph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.97
Rank#126  Overall
#59  Relational DBMS
Score30.50
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score2.28
Rank#115  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score0.45
Rank#261  Overall
#41  Document stores
#122  Relational DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#325  Overall
#29  Graph DBMS
Websitephoenix.apache.orghbase.apache.orgpouchdb.comwww.sequoiadb.comterminusdb.com
Technical documentationphoenix.apache.orghbase.apache.org/­book.htmlpouchdb.com/­guideswww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=indexterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperApache Software FoundationApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetApache Software FoundationSequoiadb Ltd.DataChemist Ltd.
Initial release20142008201220132018
Current release5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 20192.3.4, January 20217.1.1, June 201911.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2Open SourceOpen Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2Open Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJavaScriptC++Prolog, Rust
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows
Linux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)LinuxLinux
Data schemeyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesschema-free, schema definition possibleschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesoptions to bring your own types, AVROnoyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regexyes
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 indexesyesnoyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnonoSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBCJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
proprietary protocol using JSONOWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
JavaScript.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyes infoCoprocessors in JavaView functions in JavaScriptJavaScriptyes
Triggersnoyesyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungeShardingGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replicationJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsHadoop integrationyesyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)noDocument is locked during a transactionACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyesyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancyAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACnosimple password-based access controlRole-based access control

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