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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. Heroic vs. Hive vs. KairosDB vs. Oracle Berkeley DB

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NameApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Berkeley DB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchdata warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2Widely used in-process key-value store
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value store infosupports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS infoin the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.97
Rank#126  Overall
#59  Relational DBMS
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score61.17
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score0.62
Rank#239  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score2.21
Rank#117  Overall
#20  Key-value stores
#3  Native XML DBMS
Websitephoenix.apache.orggithub.com/­spotify/­heroichive.apache.orggithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­berkeleydb.html
Technical documentationphoenix.apache.orgspotify.github.io/­heroiccwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homekairosdb.github.iodocs.oracle.com/­cd/­E17076_05/­html/­index.html
DeveloperApache Software FoundationSpotifyApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookOracle infooriginally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle
Initial release20142014201220131994
Current release5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 20193.1.3, April 20221.2.2, November 201818.1.40, May 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infocommercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJavaJavaC, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Windows
AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows
Data schemeyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
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 infoonly with the Berkeley DB XML edition
Secondary indexesyesyes infovia Elasticsearchyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoyes infoSQL interfaced based on SQLite is available
APIs and other access methodsJDBCHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
.Net infoFigaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others infoThird-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnoyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reducenono
Triggersnonononoyes infoonly for the SQL API
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingSharding infobased on Cassandranone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesselectable replication factorselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsHadoop integrationnoyes infoquery execution via MapReducenono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnononoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.yesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancyAccess rights for users, groups and rolessimple password-based access controlno

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