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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. LeanXcale vs. Lovefield vs. STSdb

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Name

Description

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

A highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilities

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	2.06
Rank	#123	Overall
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Score	0.36
Rank	#280	Overall
	#40	Key-value stores
	#129	Relational DBMS

Score	0.33
Rank	#286	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#357	Overall
	#51	Key-value stores

Website

phoenix.apache.org

www.leanxcale.com

google.github.io/lovefield

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

phoenix.apache.org

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

LeanXcale

Google

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2014

2015

2014

2011

Current release

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

2.1.12, February 2017

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Windows

Data scheme

yes

late-bound, schema-on-read capabilities

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

through Apache Derby

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

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

C
Java
Scala

JavaScript

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

Using read-only observers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

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

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

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

using MemoryDB

User concepts

Access control

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

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