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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. ObjectBox vs. Splice Machine

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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

Open-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	1.97
Rank	#126	Overall
	#59	Relational DBMS

Score	1.20
Rank	#170	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.54
Rank	#250	Overall
	#114	Relational DBMS

Website

phoenix.apache.org

objectbox.io

splicemachine.com

Technical documentation

phoenix.apache.org

docs.objectbox.io

splicemachine.com/how-it-works

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

ObjectBox Limited

Splice Machine

Initial release

2014

2017

2014

Current release

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

3.1, March 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

AGPL 3.0, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

late-bound, schema-on-read capabilities

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

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

Proprietary native API

JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC

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++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Shared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

online/offline synchronization between client and server

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

Yes, via Full Spark Integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

yes

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

More information provided by the system vendor

News

Edge AI: The era of on-device AI
23 April 2024

In-Memory Database Use Cases
15 February 2024

Data Viewer for Objects – announcing ObjectBox Admin
14 November 2023

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9 August 2023

Vector Database Release for Flutter / Dart + Python
13 June 2023

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