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DBMS > Amazon DocumentDB vs. Apache Phoenix vs. Postgres-XL vs. SQream DB vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison Amazon DocumentDB vs. Apache Phoenix vs. Postgres-XL vs. SQream DB vs. Transbase

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NameAmazon DocumentDB  Xexclude from comparisonApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed MongoDB-compatible database serviceA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresa GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloadsA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score1.91
Rank#132  Overall
#24  Document stores
Score1.97
Rank#126  Overall
#59  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#256  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score0.70
Rank#227  Overall
#104  Relational DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#341  Overall
#150  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­documentdbphoenix.apache.orgwww.postgres-xl.orgsqream.comwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationaws.amazon.com/­documentdb/­resourcesphoenix.apache.orgwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationdocs.sqream.comwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperApache Software FoundationSQream TechnologiesTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release201920142014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB20171987
Current release5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 201910 R1, October 20182022.1.6, December 2022Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoMozilla public licensecommercialcommercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaCC++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, ScalaC and C++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Unix
Windows
Linux
macOS
LinuxFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesyes
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.nonoyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalityno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyes infodistributed, parallel query executionyesyes
APIs and other access methodsproprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)JDBCADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
C
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsuser defined functionsuser defined functions in Pythonyes
Triggersnonoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardinghorizontal partitioninghorizontal and vertical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-availability zones for high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicasMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)Hadoop integrationnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infotypically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possiblenoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-document operationsACIDACID infoMVCCACIDyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancyfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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