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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. InfluxDB vs. Memcached vs. OpenSearch vs. Oracle NoSQL

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Name

Description

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

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

In-memory key-value store, originally intended for caching

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

A multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodes

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

Vector DBMS

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Score	1.97
Rank	#126	Overall
	#59	Relational DBMS

Score	25.83
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	19.42
Rank	#32	Overall
	#4	Key-value stores

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	2.95
Rank	#100	Overall
	#17	Document stores
	#17	Key-value stores
	#50	Relational DBMS

Website

phoenix.apache.org

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

www.memcached.org

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

www.oracle.com/database/nosql/technologies/nosql

Technical documentation

phoenix.apache.org

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

opensearch.org/docs/latest

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/nosql-database/index.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

Amazon Web Services

Oracle

Initial release

2014

2013

2003

2021

2011

Current release

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

2.7.6, April 2024

1.6.25, March 2024

2.5.0, January 2023

23.3, December 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Proprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86

Data scheme

yes

late-bound, schema-on-read capabilities

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

Support Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data and Strings

yes

optional

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

Proprietary protocol

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

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

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

in enterprise version only

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

none

Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity

yes

Electable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table feature

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

configurable

ACID within a storage node (=shard)

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

Depending on used storage engine

yes

off heap cache

User concepts

Access control

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

simple rights management via user accounts

yes

using SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

Access rights for users and roles

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