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

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Name

Description

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

A multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodes

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.

Open Source Time Series DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

RDF store

Document store

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.90
Rank	#125	Overall
	#59	Relational DBMS

Score	3.07
Rank	#86	Overall
	#15	Document stores
	#11	Key-value stores
	#47	Relational DBMS

Score	0.72
Rank	#222	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	2.58
Rank	#105	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Website

phoenix.apache.org

www.oracle.com/database/nosql/technologies/nosql

rdf4j.org

rethinkdb.com

siridb.com

Technical documentation

phoenix.apache.org

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/nosql-database/index.html

rdf4j.org/documentation

rethinkdb.com/docs

docs.siridb.com

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Oracle

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

Cesbit

Initial release

2014

2011

2004

2009

2017

Current release

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

24.1, May 2024

2.4.1, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Proprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

late-bound, schema-on-read capabilities

Support Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.

yes

RDF Schemas

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

yes

Numeric data

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

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Java
PHP
Python

community-supported driver
C#

community-supported driver
C++

community-supported driver
Clojure

community-supported driver
Dart

community-supported driver
Erlang

community-supported driver
Go

community-supported driver
Haskell

community-supported driver
Java

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js)

official driver
Lisp

community-supported driver
Lua

community-supported driver
Objective-C

community-supported driver
Perl

community-supported driver
PHP

community-supported driver
Python

official driver
Ruby

official driver
Scala

community-supported driver

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

range based

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Electable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table feature

none

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

with Hadoop integration

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

configurable

ACID within a storage node (=shard)

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

Atomic single-document operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC based

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

off heap cache

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancy

Access rights for users and roles

yes

users and table-level permissions

simple rights management via user accounts

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