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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. Heroic vs. RRDtool vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

A scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBase

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

Industry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database.

The data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.97
Rank	#126	Overall
	#59	Relational DBMS

Score	0.51
Rank	#255	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.87
Rank	#136	Overall
	#11	Time Series DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

phoenix.apache.org

github.com/spotify/heroic

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

phoenix.apache.org

spotify.github.io/heroic

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/doc

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Spotify

Tobias Oetiker

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2014

1999

2014

Current release

5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 2019

1.8.0, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL V2 and FLOSS

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Implementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

HP-UX
Linux

hosted

Data scheme

yes

late-bound, schema-on-read capabilities

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Exporting into and restoring from XML files possible

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

via Elasticsearch

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

in-process shared library
Pipes

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

with librrd library
C#

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Java

with a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js)

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP

with a wrapper library
Python
Ruby

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

by using the rrdcached daemon

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancy

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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