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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. PouchDB vs. searchxml vs. Trafodion

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Name

Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.90
Rank	#125	Overall
	#59	Relational DBMS

Score	2.18
Rank	#114	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Website

phoenix.apache.org

pouchdb.com

www.searchxml.net/category/products

trafodion.apache.org

Technical documentation

phoenix.apache.org

pouchdb.com/guides

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

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Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Initial release

2014

2012

2015

2014

Current release

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

7.1.1, June 2019

1.0

2.3.0, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

C++

C++, Java

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

late-bound, schema-on-read capabilities

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

JavaScript

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

View functions in JavaScript

yes

on the application server

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

yes, via HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

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

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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