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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. InfinityDB vs. LokiJS vs. Oracle Coherence vs. QuestDB

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NameApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Coherence  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseA Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interfaceIn-memory JavaScript DBMSOracles in-memory data grid solutionA high performance open source SQL database for time series data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeDocument storeKey-value storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score1.97
Rank#126  Overall
#59  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#378  Overall
#57  Key-value stores
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score1.92
Rank#130  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Score2.52
Rank#109  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Websitephoenix.apache.orgboilerbay.comgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSwww.oracle.com/­java/­coherencequestdb.io
Technical documentationphoenix.apache.orgboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manualtechfort.github.io/­LokiJSdocs.oracle.com/­en/­middleware/­standalone/­coherencequestdb.io/­docs
DeveloperApache Software FoundationBoiler Bay Inc.OracleQuestDB Technology Inc
Initial release20142002201420072014
Current release5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 20194.014.1, August 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJavaScriptJavaJava (Zero-GC), C++, Rust
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows
All OS with a Java VMserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)All OS with a Java VMLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgradeschema-freeschema-freeyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arraysnoyesyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityyes infovia viewsnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnononoSQL with time-series extensions
APIs and other access methodsJDBCAccess via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
JavaScript APIJCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
JavaJavaScript.Net
C++
Java
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnoView functions in JavaScriptnono
Triggersnonoyesyes infoLive Eventsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenoneShardinghorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
nonenoneyes, with selectable consistency levelSource-replica replication with eventual consistency
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsHadoop integrationnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZEDnoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilitynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loadsno infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleconfigurableACID for single-table writes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yes infooptionallyyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesyesyes infothrough memory mapped files
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancynonoauthentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication
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Specific characteristicsRelational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantagesHigh ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenariosFinancial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customersBanks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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