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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. LevelDB vs. TiDB

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Name

Description

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

Embeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string values

TiDB is an open source distributed SQL database that supports Hybrid Transactional/Analytical Processing (HTAP) workloads. It is MySQL compatible and features horizontal scalability, strong consistency, and high availability.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	1.82
Rank	#124	Overall
	#60	Relational DBMS

Score	1.92
Rank	#118	Overall
	#18	Key-value stores

Score	3.58
Rank	#73	Overall
	#38	Relational DBMS

Website

phoenix.apache.org

github.com/google/leveldb

pingcap.com

Technical documentation

phoenix.apache.org

github.com/google/leveldb/blob/main/doc/index.md

docs.pingcap.com/tidb/stable

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Google

PingCAP, Inc.

Initial release

2014

2011

2016

Current release

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

1.23, February 2021

8.2.0, July 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Go, Rust

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

late-bound, schema-on-read capabilities

schema-free

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

GORM
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
SQLAlchemy

Supported programming languages

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

C++
Go
Java

3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Python

3rd party binding

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning (by key range)

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

Using Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

yes

with TiSpark Connector

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

full support since version 6.6

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

with automatic compression on writes

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

Fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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