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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. QuestDB vs. UniData,UniVerse

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NameApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Table Storage  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonUniData,UniVerse  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseA Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasetsA high performance open source SQL database for time series dataMultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilities
Primary database modelRelational DBMSWide column storeTime Series DBMSMultivalue DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.90
Rank#125  Overall
#59  Relational DBMS
Score3.55
Rank#80  Overall
#6  Wide column stores
Score2.81
Rank#98  Overall
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score2.25
Rank#112  Overall
#2  Multivalue DBMS
Websitephoenix.apache.orgazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­storage/­tablesquestdb.iowww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-unidata
Technical documentationphoenix.apache.orgquestdb.io/­docsdocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidata
DeveloperApache Software FoundationMicrosoftQuestDB Technology IncRocket Software
Initial release2014201220141985
Current release5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaJava (Zero-GC), C++, RustC
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows
hostedLinux
macOS
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesschema-freeyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesoptional
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoSQL with time-series extensionsyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBCRESTful HTTP APIHTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Java API infoJPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
.Net
Basic infoU2 Basic
C
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnonoyes
Triggersnononoyes infoU2 Basic
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicehorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)none
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 eventual consistencySource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsHadoop integrationnonono
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 lockingACID for single-table writesACID infoconfigurable
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes infothrough memory mapped files
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 signaturesAccess rights according to SQL-standard and operating system based
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