DBMS > Apache Phoenix vs. Lovefield vs. mSQL vs. OrigoDB vs. Spark SQL

System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. Lovefield vs. mSQL vs. OrigoDB vs. Spark SQL

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Name

Description

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

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Rank	#123	Overall
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Rank	#286	Overall
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Score	1.27
Rank	#169	Overall
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Score	0.06
Rank	#380	Overall
	#50	Document stores
	#18	Object oriented DBMS

Score	18.04
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Website

phoenix.apache.org

google.github.io/lovefield

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

origodb.com

spark.apache.org/sql

Technical documentation

phoenix.apache.org

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

origodb.com/docs

spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-programming-guide.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Google

Hughes Technologies

Robert Friberg et al

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2014

1994

2009

under the name LiveDB

2014

Current release

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

2.1.12, February 2017

4.4, October 2021

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

Scala

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

late-bound, schema-on-read capabilities

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

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.

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

JavaScript

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

.Net

Java
Python
R
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

Using read-only observers

yes

Domain Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

yes, utilizing Spark Core

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

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

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

depending on model

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

Write ahead log

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

using MemoryDB

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

Role based authorization

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