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DBMS > Apache Phoenix vs. InterSystems Caché vs. OpenTSDB vs. Realm

System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. InterSystems Caché vs. OpenTSDB vs. Realm

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NameApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  Xexclude from comparison
Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseA multi-model DBMS and application serverScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseA DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.06
Rank#123  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score1.68
Rank#142  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score7.41
Rank#52  Overall
#8  Document stores
Websitephoenix.apache.orgwww.intersystems.com/­products/­cacheopentsdb.netrealm.io
Technical documentationphoenix.apache.orgdocs.intersystems.comopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmlrealm.io/­docs
DeveloperApache Software FoundationInterSystemscurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsRealm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019
Initial release2014199720112014
Current release5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 20192018.1.4, May 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoLGPLOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaJava
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows
AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
Data schemeyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesdepending on used data modelschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsyes
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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesnono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
Telnet API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C#
C++
Java
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyesnono inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary
Triggersnoyesnoyes infoChange Listeners
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding infobased on HBasenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationselectable replication factor infobased on HBasenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsHadoop integrationnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infobased on HBaseImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnoyes infoIn-Memory realm
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancyAccess rights for users, groups and rolesnoyes

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