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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. KairosDB

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Name

Description

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

A containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalability

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	2.02
Rank	#130	Overall
	#63	Relational DBMS

Score	4.39
Rank	#81	Overall
	#13	Document stores
	#10	Key-value stores
	#1	Object oriented DBMS
	#44	Relational DBMS

Score	0.71
Rank	#230	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Website

phoenix.apache.org

www.intersystems.com/products/intersystems-iris

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

Technical documentation

phoenix.apache.org

docs.intersystems.com/irislatest/csp/docbook/DocBook.UI.Page.cls

kairosdb.github.io

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

InterSystems

Initial release

2014

2018

2013

Current release

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

2023.3, June 2023

1.2.2, November 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

late-bound, schema-on-read capabilities

depending on used data model

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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

User concepts

Access control

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

yes

simple password-based access control

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