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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. IRONdb vs. WakandaDB vs. XTDB

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Name

IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

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Score	2.06
Rank	#123	Overall
	#58	Relational DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#356	Overall
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.18
Rank	#332	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

phoenix.apache.org

www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/

wakanda.github.io

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

phoenix.apache.org

docs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started

wakanda.github.io/doc

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Circonus LLC.

Wakanda SAS

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2014

2017

2012

2019

Current release

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

V0.10.20, January 2018

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

C++, JavaScript

Clojure

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

yes

late-bound, schema-on-read capabilities

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

text, numeric, histograms

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

JavaScript

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes, in Lua

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Automatic, metric affinity per node

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

none

yes, each node contains all data

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

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

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

yes

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