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DBMS > Apache Phoenix vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Spark SQL vs. Splunk vs. VoltDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Spark SQL vs. Splunk vs. VoltDB

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NameApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparisonVoltDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingAnalytics Platform for Big DataDistributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS infoUsed for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score2.06
Rank#123  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score1.64
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score18.04
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score89.10
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Score1.47
Rank#157  Overall
#73  Relational DBMS
Websitephoenix.apache.orggithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
spark.apache.org/­sqlwww.splunk.comwww.voltdb.com
Technical documentationphoenix.apache.orgdocs.heavy.aispark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.htmldocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunkdocs.voltdb.com
DeveloperApache Software FoundationHEAVY.AI, Inc.Apache Software FoundationSplunk Inc.VoltDB Inc.
Initial release20142016201420032010
Current release5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 20195.10, January 20223.5.0 ( 2.13), September 202311.3, April 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition availableOpen Source infoAGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++ and CUDAScalaJava, C++
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X infofor development
Data schemeyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesyesyesyesyes
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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesyesnonoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsno infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commandsyes infoonly a subset of SQL 99
APIs and other access methodsJDBCJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP RESTJava API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
Java
Python
R
Scala
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Erlang infonot officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnonoyesJava
Triggersnononoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoRound robinyes, utilizing Spark CoreShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replicationnoneMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsHadoop integrationnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono infoFOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonono infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searchingACID infoTransactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes infoData access is serialized by the server
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoSnapshots and command logging
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnono
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-standardnoAccess rights for users and rolesUsers and roles with access to stored procedures

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