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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Apache Phoenix vs. Realm vs. Yanza

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Name

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

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

A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data

Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.94
Rank	#181	Overall
	#88	Relational DBMS

Score	2.72
Rank	#109	Overall
	#57	Relational DBMS

Score	9.92
Rank	#49	Overall
	#8	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#356	Overall
	#32	Time Series DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

github.com/ALTIBASE/Documents/tree/master/Manuals

phoenix.apache.org

realm.io/docs

Developer

Altibase

Apache Software Foundation

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

Yanza

Initial release

1999

2014

2015

Current release

v7.1.0.5.3, March 2021

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

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

since February 2018

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

commercial

free version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

but mainly used as a service provided by Yanza

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

Linux
Unix
Windows

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

yes

late-bound, schema-on-read capabilities

yes

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

JDBC

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

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

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

any language that supports HTTP calls

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

user defined functions

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

Triggers

yes

Change Listeners

yes

Timer and event based

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

In-Memory realm

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

yes

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

Mobile Consumer Apps First-Line Worker Apps
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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

Realm database is licensed under the Apache License v2.0.
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