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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. InfinityDB vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. LokiJS vs. mSQL

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NameApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems IRIS  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseA Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interfaceA containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalabilityIn-memory JavaScript DBMSmSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeDocument store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Document storeRelational DBMS
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Score2.06
Rank#123  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#365  Overall
#55  Key-value stores
Score3.54
Rank#84  Overall
#14  Document stores
#10  Key-value stores
#1  Object oriented DBMS
#45  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score1.27
Rank#169  Overall
#76  Relational DBMS
Websitephoenix.apache.orgboilerbay.comwww.intersystems.com/­products/­intersystems-irisgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJShughestech.com.au/­products/­msql
Technical documentationphoenix.apache.orgboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manualdocs.intersystems.com/­irislatest/­csp/­docbook/­DocBook.UI.Page.clstechfort.github.io/­LokiJS
DeveloperApache Software FoundationBoiler Bay Inc.InterSystemsHughes Technologies
Initial release20142002201820141994
Current release5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 20194.02023.3, June 20234.4, October 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialcommercialOpen Sourcecommercial infofree licenses can be provided
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJavaScriptC
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows
All OS with a Java VMAIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Data schemeyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgradedepending on used data modelschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arraysyesnoyes
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 indexesyesno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityyesyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyesnoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers
APIs and other access methodsJDBCAccess via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JavaScript APIJDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
Java.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScriptC
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnoyesView functions in JavaScriptno
Triggersnonoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneSource-replica replicationnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsHadoop integrationnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZEDImmediate Consistencynonenone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loadsACIDno infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancynoyesnono
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