DBMS > Apache Phoenix vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. MariaDB vs. MongoDB vs. PouchDB
System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. MariaDB vs. MongoDB vs. PouchDB
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Name | Apache Phoenix Xexclude from comparison | InterSystems IRIS Xexclude from comparison | MariaDB Xexclude from comparison | MongoDB Xexclude from comparison | PouchDB Xexclude from comparison | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 | MySQL application compatible open source RDBMS, enhanced with high availability, security, interoperability and performance capabilities. MariaDB ColumnStore provides a column-oriented storage engine and MariaDB Xpand supports distributed SQL. | One of the most popular document stores available both as a fully managed cloud service and for deployment on self-managed infrastructure | JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Primary database model | Relational DBMS | Document store Key-value store Object oriented DBMS Relational DBMS | Relational DBMS | Document store | Document store | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Secondary database models | Document store Graph DBMS with OQGraph storage engine Spatial DBMS | Spatial DBMS Search engine integrated Lucene index, currently in MongoDB Atlas only. Time Series DBMS Time Series Collections introduced in Release 5.0 Vector DBMS currently available in the MongoDB Atlas cloud service only | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Website | phoenix.apache.org | www.intersystems.com/products/intersystems-iris | mariadb.com Site of MariaDB Corporation mariadb.org Site of MariaDB Foundation | www.mongodb.com | pouchdb.com | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Technical documentation | phoenix.apache.org | docs.intersystems.com/irislatest/csp/docbook/DocBook.UI.Page.cls | mariadb.com/kb/en/library | www.mongodb.com/docs/manual | pouchdb.com/guides | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Developer | Apache Software Foundation | InterSystems | MariaDB Corporation Ab (MariaDB Enterprise), MariaDB Foundation (community MariaDB Server) The lead developer Monty Widenius is the original author of MySQL | MongoDB, Inc | Apache Software Foundation | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Initial release | 2014 | 2018 | 2009 Fork of MySQL, which was first released in 1995 | 2009 | 2012 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Current release | 5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 2019 | 2023.3, June 2023 | 11.3.2, February 2024 | 6.0.7, June 2023 | 7.1.1, June 2019 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
License Commercial or Open Source | Open Source Apache Version 2.0 | commercial | Open Source GPL version 2, commercial enterprise subscription available | Open Source MongoDB Inc.'s Server Side Public License v1. Prior versions were published under GNU AGPL v3.0. Commercial licenses are also available. | Open Source | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service | no | no | no | no MongoDB available as DBaaS (MongoDB Atlas) | no | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Implementation language | Java | C and C++ | C++ | JavaScript | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Server operating systems | Linux Unix Windows | AIX Linux macOS Ubuntu Windows | FreeBSD Linux Solaris Windows ColumnStore storage engine not available on Windows | Linux OS X Solaris Windows | server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Data scheme | yes late-bound, schema-on-read capabilities | depending on used data model | yes Dynamic columns are supported | schema-free Although schema-free, documents of the same collection often follow the same structure. Optionally impose all or part of a schema by defining a JSON schema. | schema-free | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Typing predefined data types such as float or date | yes | yes | yes | yes string, integer, double, decimal, boolean, date, object_id, geospatial | no | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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. | no | yes | yes | no | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Secondary indexes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes via views | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
SQL Support of SQL | yes | yes | yes with proprietary extensions | Read-only SQL queries via the MongoDB Atlas SQL Interface | no | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
APIs and other access methods | JDBC | JDBC ODBC RESTful HTTP API | ADO.NET JDBC ODBC Proprietary native API | GraphQL HTTP REST Prisma proprietary protocol using JSON | HTTP REST only for PouchDB Server JavaScript API | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Supported programming languages | C C# C++ Go Groovy Java PHP Python Scala | .Net C++ Java JavaScript (Node.js) Python | Ada C C# C++ D Eiffel Erlang Go Haskell Java JavaScript (Node.js) Objective-C OCaml Perl PHP Python Ruby Scheme Tcl | Actionscript unofficial driver C C# C++ Clojure unofficial driver ColdFusion unofficial driver D unofficial driver Dart unofficial driver Delphi unofficial driver Erlang Go Groovy unofficial driver Haskell Java JavaScript Kotlin Lisp unofficial driver Lua unofficial driver MatLab unofficial driver Perl PHP PowerShell unofficial driver Prolog unofficial driver Python R unofficial driver Ruby Rust Scala Smalltalk unofficial driver Swift | JavaScript | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Server-side scripts Stored procedures | user defined functions | yes | yes PL/SQL compatibility added with version 10.3 | JavaScript | View functions in JavaScript | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Triggers | no | yes | yes | yes in MongoDB Atlas only | yes | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes | Sharding | Sharding | several options for horizontal partitioning and Sharding | Sharding Partitioned by hashed, ranged, or zoned sharding keys. Live resharding allows users to change their shard keys as an online operation with zero downtime. | Sharding with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes | Multi-source replication Source-replica replication | Source-replica replication | Multi-source replication Source-replica replication | Multi-Source deployments with MongoDB Atlas Global Clusters Source-replica replication | Multi-source replication also with CouchDB databases Source-replica replication also with CouchDB databases | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods | Hadoop integration | no | no | yes | yes | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system | Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency | Immediate Consistency | Immediate Consistency | Eventual Consistency can be individually decided for each read operation Immediate Consistency default behaviour | Eventual Consistency | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Foreign keys Referential integrity | no | yes | yes not for MyISAM storage engine | no typically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possible | no | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data | ACID | ACID | ACID not for MyISAM storage engine | Multi-document ACID Transactions with snapshot isolation | no | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data | yes | yes | yes | yes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Durability Support for making data persistent | yes | yes | yes not for in-memory storage engine | yes optional, enabled by default | yes by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only. | yes | yes | yes with MEMORY storage engine | yes In-memory storage engine introduced with MongoDB version 3.2 | yes | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
User concepts Access control | Access Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancy | yes | fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard | Access rights for users and roles | no | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Apache Phoenix | InterSystems IRIS | MariaDB | MongoDB | PouchDB | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Specific characteristics | InterSystems IRIS is a complete cloud-first data platform which includes a multi-model... » more | MariaDB is the most powerful open source relational database – modern SQL and JSON... » more | MongoDB provides an integrated suite of cloud database and data services to accelerate... » more | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Competitive advantages | MariaDB Servers have many features unavailable in other open source relational databases.... » more | Built around the flexible document data model and unified API, MongoDB is a developer... » more | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Typical application scenarios | Web, SaaS and Cloud operational applications that require high availability, scalability... » more | AI-enriched intelligent apps (Continental, Telefonica, Iron Mountain) Internet of... » more | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Key customers | Deutsche Bank, DBS Bank, Nasdaq, Red Hat, ServiceNow, Verizon and Walgreens Featured... » more | ADP, Adobe, Amadeus, AstraZeneca, Auto Trader, Barclays, BBVA, Bosch, Cisco, CERN,... » more | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Market metrics | MariaDB is the default database in the LAMP stack supplied by Red Hat and SUSE Linux,... » more | Hundreds of millions downloads, over 150,000+ Atlas clusters provisioned every month... » more | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Licensing and pricing models | MariaDB plc subscriptions cover our free, open source database, Community Server,... » more | MongoDB database server: Server-Side Public License (SSPL) . Commercial licenses... » more | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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