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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. ArcadeDB vs. Geode vs. SAP HANA vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

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

Fast and scalable multi-model DBMS, originally forked from OrientDB but most of the code has been rewritten

Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processes

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Time Series DBMS

in next version

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.97
Rank	#126	Overall
	#59	Relational DBMS

Score	0.02
Rank	#366	Overall
	#50	Document stores
	#38	Graph DBMS
	#53	Key-value stores
	#36	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.92
Rank	#131	Overall
	#23	Key-value stores

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#341	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Website

phoenix.apache.org

arcadedb.com

geode.apache.org

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

phoenix.apache.org

docs.arcadedb.com

geode.apache.org/docs

help.sap.com/hana

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Arcade Data

Originally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.

SAP

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2014

2021

2002

2010

1987

Current release

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

September 2021

1.1, February 2017

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

Appliance or cloud-service

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

late-bound, schema-on-read capabilities

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language, no joins

SQL-like query language (OQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

JDBC
MongoDB API
OpenCypher
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Redis API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
TinkerPop Gremlin

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

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

Java

.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

SQLScript, R

yes

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

yes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationship in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes, on a single node

ACID

yes

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

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

Access rights per client and object definable

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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