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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. Quasardb vs. XTDB

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NameApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Table Storage  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseA Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasetsDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelRelational DBMSWide column storeTime Series DBMSDocument store
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Score2.06
Rank#123  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score4.04
Rank#77  Overall
#6  Wide column stores
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score0.18
Rank#332  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websitephoenix.apache.orgazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­storage/­tablesquasar.aigithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationphoenix.apache.orgdoc.quasar.ai/­masterwww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperApache Software FoundationMicrosoftquasardbJuxt Ltd.
Initial release2014201220092019
Current release5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 20193.14.1, January 20241.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialcommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaC++Clojure
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows
hostedBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infointeger and binaryyes, extensible-data-notation format
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyes infowith tagsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoSQL-like query languagelimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsJDBCRESTful HTTP APIHTTP APIHTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnonono
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infoconsistent hashingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes infoimplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.Source-replica replication with selectable replication factoryes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsHadoop integrationnowith Hadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDoptimistic lockingACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby using LevelDByes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancyAccess rights based on private key authentication or shared access signaturesCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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