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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Apache Phoenix vs. Lovefield vs. Sphinx vs. Yanza

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonYanza  Xexclude from comparison
Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesTime Series DBMS for IoT Applications
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engineTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.87
Rank#200  Overall
#93  Relational DBMS
Score1.90
Rank#125  Overall
#59  Relational DBMS
Score0.22
Rank#306  Overall
#138  Relational DBMS
Score5.97
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitealtibase.comphoenix.apache.orggoogle.github.io/­lovefieldsphinxsearch.comyanza.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsphoenix.apache.orggithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mdsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperAltibaseApache Software FoundationGoogleSphinx Technologies Inc.Yanza
Initial release19992014201420012015
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20235.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 20192.1.12, February 20173.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availablecommercial infofree version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono infobut mainly used as a service provided by Yanza
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Implementation languageC++JavaJavaScriptC++
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Linux
Unix
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Windows
Data schemeyesyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnono
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 infofull-text index on all search fieldsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92yesSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)no
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
JDBCProprietary protocolHTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
C
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
JavaScriptC++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
any language that supports HTTP calls
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsuser defined functionsnonono
TriggersyesnoUsing read-only observersnoyes infoTimer and event based
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportednone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
nonenonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoHadoop integrationnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes infousing MemoryDB
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancynonono

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