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System Properties Comparison Apache Derby vs. Apache Phoenix vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database

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Name

Description

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

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

Database as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL Server

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	4.12
Rank	#69	Overall
	#37	Relational DBMS

Score	1.93
Rank	#120	Overall
	#59	Relational DBMS

Score	74.53
Rank	#16	Overall
	#11	Relational DBMS

Website

db.apache.org/derby

phoenix.apache.org

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/azure-sql/database

Technical documentation

db.apache.org/derby/manuals/index.html

phoenix.apache.org

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Microsoft

Initial release

1997

2014

2010

Current release

10.17.1.0, November 2023

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

V12

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Unix
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

late-bound, schema-on-read capabilities

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

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

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

user defined functions

Transact SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes, with always 3 replicas available

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

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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