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DBMS > Apache Phoenix vs. SiteWhere vs. Spark SQL vs. VoltDB vs. YottaDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. SiteWhere vs. Spark SQL vs. VoltDB vs. YottaDB

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NameApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonVoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonYottaDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series dataSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingDistributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS infoUsed for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memoryA fast and solid embedded Key-value store
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS infousing the Octo plugin
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Score2.06
Rank#123  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#383  Overall
#43  Time Series DBMS
Score18.04
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score1.47
Rank#157  Overall
#73  Relational DBMS
Score0.28
Rank#306  Overall
#44  Key-value stores
Websitephoenix.apache.orggithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewherespark.apache.org/­sqlwww.voltdb.comyottadb.com
Technical documentationphoenix.apache.orgsitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.htmlspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.htmldocs.voltdb.comyottadb.com/­resources/­documentation
DeveloperApache Software FoundationSiteWhereApache Software FoundationVoltDB Inc.YottaDB, LLC
Initial release20142010201420102001
Current release5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 20193.5.0 ( 2.13), September 202311.3, April 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoAGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro EditionsOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaScalaJava, C++C
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X infofor development
Docker
Linux
Data schemeyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiespredefined schemeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
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 indexesyesnonoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes infoonly a subset of SQL 99by using the Octo plugin
APIs and other access methodsJDBCHTTP RESTJDBC
ODBC
Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
PostgreSQL wire protocol infousing the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
Java
Python
R
Scala
C#
C++
Erlang infonot officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnoJava
Triggersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infobased on HBaseyes, utilizing Spark CoreSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor infobased on HBasenoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsHadoop integrationnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono infoFOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACID infoTransactions are executed single-threaded within stored proceduresoptimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoData access is serialized by the server
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoSnapshots and command loggingyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancyUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptnoUsers and roles with access to stored proceduresUsers and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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