DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Phoenix vs. Sphinx vs. TDengine vs. Yanza

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Phoenix vs. Sphinx vs. TDengine vs. Yanza

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Name

Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

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

Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases

Time Series DBMS and big data platform

Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	1.97
Rank	#126	Overall
	#59	Relational DBMS

Score	5.98
Rank	#56	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Score	2.60
Rank	#107	Overall
	#8	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

phoenix.apache.org

sphinxsearch.com

github.com/taosdata/TDengine
tdengine.com

yanza.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

phoenix.apache.org

sphinxsearch.com/docs

docs.tdengine.com

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Apache Software Foundation

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

TDEngine, previously Taos Data

Yanza

Initial release

2012

2014

2001

2019

2015

Current release

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

3.5.1, February 2023

3.0, August 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

Open Source

AGPL V3, also commercial editions available

commercial

free version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

but mainly used as a service provided by Yanza

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Unix
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
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

restricted

yes

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

Standard SQL with extensions for time-series applications

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC

Proprietary protocol

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

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

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust

any language that supports HTTP calls

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

user defined functions

Triggers

yes, via alarm monitoring

yes

Timer and event based

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

yes

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

informational only, not enforced by the system

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

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.

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

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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