DBMS > Apache Phoenix vs. InfinityDB vs. LokiJS vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Snowflake

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

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Name

Description

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

A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

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Website

phoenix.apache.org

boilerbay.com

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

phoenix.apache.org

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Boiler Bay Inc.

Oracle

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2014

2002

2014

2007

2014

Current release

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

4.0

14.1, August 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Data scheme

yes

late-bound, schema-on-read capabilities

yes

nested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical â€˜tuple spaceâ€™ runtime Schema upgrade

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

all Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/docs/ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)

JavaScript API

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

Java

JavaScript

.Net
C++
Java

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

View functions in JavaScript

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Live Events

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

yes, with selectable consistency level

yes

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

READ-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED

none

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Optimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads

atomic operations within a single collection possible

configurable

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

yes

optionally

yes

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

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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