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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. ObjectBox vs. RocksDB vs. Spark SQL vs. VoltDB

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Name

Description

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

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

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

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	2.06
Rank	#123	Overall
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Score	1.29
Rank	#166	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	18.04
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Score	1.47
Rank	#157	Overall
	#73	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

phoenix.apache.org

docs.objectbox.io

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

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

docs.voltdb.com

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

ObjectBox Limited

Facebook, Inc.

Apache Software Foundation

VoltDB Inc.

Initial release

2014

2017

2013

2014

2010

Current release

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

9.2.1, May 2024

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023

11.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

C++

Scala

Java, C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X

for development

Data scheme

yes

late-bound, schema-on-read capabilities

yes

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

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

only a subset of SQL 99

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

Proprietary native API

C++ API
Java API

JDBC
ODBC

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

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

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Java
Python
R
Scala

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Java

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

yes, utilizing Spark Core

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

online/offline synchronization between client and server

yes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Snapshots and command logging

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

yes

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

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