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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. etcd vs. Memgraph vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

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

A distributed reliable key-value store

An open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4j

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

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Score	2.06
Rank	#123	Overall
	#58	Relational DBMS

Score	7.03
Rank	#54	Overall
	#5	Key-value stores

Score	3.19
Rank	#94	Overall
	#8	Graph DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

phoenix.apache.org

etcd.io
github.com/etcd-io/etcd

memgraph.com

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

phoenix.apache.org

etcd.io/docs
github.com/etcd-io/etcd/tree/master/Documentation

memgraph.com/docs

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Social network pages

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Memgraph Ltd

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2014

2017

2014

Current release

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

3.4, August 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

BSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
Windows

experimental

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

yes

late-bound, schema-on-read capabilities

schema-free

schema-free and schema-optional

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

gRPC
JSON over HTTP

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Tcl

.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes, watching key changes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

Multi-source replication using RAFT

yes

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

relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

with snapshot isolation

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changes

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

Users, roles and permissions

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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Specific characteristics

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