DBMS > Apache Phoenix vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. EXASOL vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. EXASOL vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. SWC-DB

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Name

This system has been discontinued and will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

Highly scalable database system, designed for managing session and subscriber data in modern mobile communication networks

High-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	2.06
Rank	#123	Overall
	#58	Relational DBMS

Score	1.76
Rank	#139	Overall
	#62	Relational DBMS

Score	821.56
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#364	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

phoenix.apache.org

atos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repository

www.exasol.com

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

phoenix.apache.org

www.exasol.com/resources

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Atos Convergence Creators

Exasol

Microsoft

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2014

2016

2000

1989

2020

Current release

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

1703

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

Linux

Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

late-bound, schema-on-read capabilities

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

LDAP

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

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

All languages with LDAP bindings

Java
Lua
Python
R

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

cell division

Sharding

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

yes

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic execution of specific operations

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

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

LDAP bind authentication

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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