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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. Kdb vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage

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NameApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonKdb  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Table Storage  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseHigh performance Time Series DBMSA Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasets
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Wide column store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.02
Rank#130  Overall
#63  Relational DBMS
Score7.70
Rank#53  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
#1  Vector DBMS
Score4.92
Rank#73  Overall
#6  Wide column stores
Websitephoenix.apache.orgkx.comazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­storage/­tables
Technical documentationphoenix.apache.orgcode.kx.com
DeveloperApache Software FoundationKx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plcMicrosoft
Initial release20142000 infokdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 20032012
Current release5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 20193.6, May 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infofree 32-bit versioncommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyes
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Implementation languageJavaq
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hosted
Data schemeyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes
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 indexesyesyes infotable attribute 'grouped'no
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query language (q)no
APIs and other access methodsJDBCHTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala
.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsuser defined functionsno
Triggersnoyes infowith viewsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioningSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationyes infoimplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsHadoop integrationno infosimilar paradigm used for internal processingno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnooptimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
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-tenancyrights management via user accountsAccess rights based on private key authentication or shared access signatures
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Apache PhoenixKdbMicrosoft Azure Table Storage
Specific characteristicsIntegrated columnar database & programming system for streaming, real time and historical...
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Competitive advantagesprovides seamless scalability; runs on industry standard server platforms; is top-ranked...
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Typical application scenariostick database streaming sensor data massive intelligence applications oil and gas...
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Key customersGoldman Sachs Morgan Stanley Merrill Lynch J.P. Morgan Deutsche Bank IEX Securities...
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Market metricskdb+ performance and reliability proven by our customers in critical infrastructure...
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Licensing and pricing modelsupon request
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