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DBMS > Apache Phoenix vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. Spark SQL vs. SQream DB vs. VoltDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. Spark SQL vs. SQream DB vs. VoltDB

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NameApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems IRIS  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparisonVoltDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseA containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalabilitySpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processinga GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloadsDistributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS infoUsed for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score2.06
Rank#123  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score3.54
Rank#84  Overall
#14  Document stores
#10  Key-value stores
#1  Object oriented DBMS
#45  Relational DBMS
Score18.04
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#224  Overall
#103  Relational DBMS
Score1.47
Rank#157  Overall
#73  Relational DBMS
Websitephoenix.apache.orgwww.intersystems.com/­products/­intersystems-irisspark.apache.org/­sqlsqream.comwww.voltdb.com
Technical documentationphoenix.apache.orgdocs.intersystems.com/­irislatest/­csp/­docbook/­DocBook.UI.Page.clsspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.htmldocs.sqream.comdocs.voltdb.com
DeveloperApache Software FoundationInterSystemsApache Software FoundationSQream TechnologiesVoltDB Inc.
Initial release20142018201420172010
Current release5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 20192023.3, June 20233.5.0 ( 2.13), September 20232022.1.6, December 202211.3, April 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoAGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScalaC++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, ScalaJava, C++
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows
AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X infofor development
Data schemeyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesdepending on used data modelyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesyes
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesyes infoonly a subset of SQL 99
APIs and other access methodsJDBCJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
Python
R
Scala
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
C++
Erlang infonot officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyesnouser defined functions in PythonJava
Triggersnoyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingyes, utilizing Spark Corehorizontal and vertical partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationnonenoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
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
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono infoFOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACIDACID infoTransactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes infoData access is serialized by the server
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoSnapshots and command logging
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancyyesnoUsers and roles with access to stored procedures
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