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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. Infobright vs. Prometheus vs. Riak KV vs. SpaceTime

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NameApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonInfobright  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseHigh performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontendOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeSpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score2.06
Rank#123  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score1.02
Rank#192  Overall
#90  Relational DBMS
Score7.69
Rank#50  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
Score4.01
Rank#79  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score0.03
Rank#392  Overall
#8  Spatial DBMS
Websitephoenix.apache.orgignitetech.com/­softwarelibrary/­infobrightdbprometheus.iowww.mireo.com/­spacetime
Technical documentationphoenix.apache.orgprometheus.io/­docswww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latest
DeveloperApache Software FoundationIgnite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.OpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesMireo
Initial release20142005201520092020
Current release5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 20193.2.0, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infoThe open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editioncommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaCGoErlangC++
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Linux
Data schemeyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesNumeric data onlynoyes
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.nonono infoImport of XML data possiblenono
Secondary indexesyesno infoKnowledge Grid Technology used insteadnorestrictedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesnonoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented
APIs and other access methodsJDBCADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
C#
C++
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnonoErlangno
Triggersnononoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingSharding infono "single point of failure"Fixed-grid hypercubes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationyes infoby Federationselectable replication factorReal-time block device replication (DRBD)
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 ConsistencynoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono infolinks between data sets can be storedno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancyfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard infoexploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilitiesnoyes, using Riak Securityyes

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