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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. MySQL vs. OpenTSDB vs. Percona Server for MongoDB

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Name

Description

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

Cloud-based data warehousing service

Widely used open source RDBMS

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

A drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Time Series DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.97
Rank	#126	Overall
	#59	Relational DBMS

Score	1.30
Rank	#164	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Score	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	1.68
Rank	#146	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.52
Rank	#254	Overall
	#39	Document stores

Website

phoenix.apache.org

www.ibm.com/products/db2/warehouse

www.mysql.com

opentsdb.net

www.percona.com/mongodb/software/percona-server-for-mongodb

Technical documentation

phoenix.apache.org

dev.mysql.com/doc

opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/index.html

docs.percona.com/percona-distribution-for-mongodb

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

IBM

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

Percona

Initial release

2014

1995

2011

2015

Current release

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

8.4.0, April 2024

3.4.10-2.10, November 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

LGPL

Open Source

GPL Version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

late-bound, schema-on-read capabilities

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

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.

Import/export of XML data possible

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

HTTP API
Telnet API

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

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

Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

PL/SQL, SQL PL

yes

proprietary syntax

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Sharding

based on HBase

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

via In-Memory Engine

User concepts

Access control

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Access rights for users and roles

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