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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. HBase vs. Riak KV vs. Stardog vs. TempoIQ

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NameApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonStardog  Xexclude from comparisonTempoIQ infoformerly TempoDB  Xexclude from comparison
TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeEnterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualizationScalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)
Primary database modelRelational DBMSWide column storeKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesGraph DBMS
RDF store
Time Series DBMS
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Score1.97
Rank#126  Overall
#59  Relational DBMS
Score30.50
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score4.10
Rank#82  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score2.02
Rank#123  Overall
#11  Graph DBMS
#6  RDF stores
Websitephoenix.apache.orghbase.apache.orgwww.stardog.comtempoiq.com (offline)
Technical documentationphoenix.apache.orghbase.apache.org/­book.htmlwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestdocs.stardog.com
DeveloperApache Software FoundationApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesStardog-UnionTempoIQ
Initial release20142008200920102012
Current release5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 20192.3.4, January 20213.2.0, December 20227.3.0, May 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editioncommercial info60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/studentscommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
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Implementation languageJavaJavaErlangJava
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows
Linux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Linux
OS X
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesschema-free, schema definition possibleschema-freeschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesoptions to bring your own types, AVROnoyesyes
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 infoImport/export of XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesyesnorestrictedyes infosupports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatial
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnonoYes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Serverno
APIs and other access methodsJDBCJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyes infoCoprocessors in JavaErlanguser defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Javano
Triggersnoyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksyes infovia event handlersyes infoRealtime Alerts
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infono "single point of failure"none
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factorMulti-source replication in HA-Cluster
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 ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in HA-Cluster
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono infolinks between data sets can be storedyes inforelationships in graphsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)noACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.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 & ABACyes, using Riak SecurityAccess rights for users and rolessimple authentication-based access control

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