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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. Pinecone vs. RDF4J vs. SiriDB

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NameApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonOracle NoSQL  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonSiriDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseA multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodesA managed, cloud-native vector databaseRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.Open Source Time Series DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Vector DBMSRDF storeTime Series DBMS
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Score2.06
Rank#123  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score3.05
Rank#97  Overall
#17  Document stores
#16  Key-value stores
#50  Relational DBMS
Score3.23
Rank#92  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#222  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score0.07
Rank#378  Overall
#42  Time Series DBMS
Websitephoenix.apache.orgwww.oracle.com/­database/­nosql/­technologies/­nosqlwww.pinecone.iordf4j.orgsiridb.com
Technical documentationphoenix.apache.orgdocs.oracle.com/­en/­database/­other-databases/­nosql-database/­index.htmldocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewrdf4j.org/­documentationdocs.siridb.com
DeveloperApache Software FoundationOraclePinecone Systems, IncSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.Cesbit
Initial release20142011201920042017
Current release5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 201924.1, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoProprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)commercialOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.Open Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJavaC
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows
Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86
hostedLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesSupport Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.yes infoRDF Schemasyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesoptionalString, Number, Booleanyesyes infoNumeric data
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 indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnonono
APIs and other access methodsJDBCRESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP APIJava API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
PythonJava
PHP
Python
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnoyesno
Triggersnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Electable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table featurenoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsHadoop integrationwith Hadoop integrationnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infodepending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDconfigurable infoACID within a storage node (=shard)ACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usedno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infooff heap cachenoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancyAccess rights for users and rolesnosimple rights management via user accounts

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