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DBMS > Apache Phoenix vs. IBM Cloudant vs. InterSystems Caché vs. JaguarDB vs. NSDb

System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. IBM Cloudant vs. InterSystems Caché vs. JaguarDB vs. NSDb

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NameApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonJaguarDB  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparison
Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBA multi-model DBMS and application serverPerformant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applicationsScalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Key-value store
Vector DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
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Score1.97
Rank#126  Overall
#59  Relational DBMS
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
#13  Vector DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Websitephoenix.apache.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.intersystems.com/­products/­cachewww.jaguardb.comnsdb.io
Technical documentationphoenix.apache.orgcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdocs.intersystems.comwww.jaguardb.com/­support.htmlnsdb.io/­Architecture
DeveloperApache Software FoundationIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014InterSystemsDataJaguar, Inc.
Initial release20142010199720152017
Current release5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 20192018.1.4, May 20203.3 July 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaErlangC++ infothe server part. Clients available in other languagesJava, Scala
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows
hostedAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinux
macOS
Data schemeyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesschema-freedepending on used data modelyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesyes: int, bigint, decimal, string
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.nonoyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyesA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infobut no views, foreign keys, triggersSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBCRESTful HTTP/JSON API.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C#
C++
Java
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Java
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptyesnono
Triggersnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsHadoop integrationyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possibleACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesUsing Apache Lucene
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancyAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseAccess rights for users, groups and rolesrights management via user accounts

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