DBMS > Apache Phoenix vs. Axibase vs. Oracle vs. Sphinx vs. Yanza

System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. Axibase vs. Oracle vs. Sphinx vs. Yanza

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Name

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

Description

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

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualization

Widely used RDBMS

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

Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

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Score	2.06
Rank	#123	Overall
	#58	Relational DBMS

Score	0.35
Rank	#282	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	1244.08
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	5.95
Rank	#55	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Website

phoenix.apache.org

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

www.oracle.com/database

sphinxsearch.com

yanza.com

Technical documentation

phoenix.apache.org

docs.oracle.com/en/database

sphinxsearch.com/docs

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Axibase Corporation

Oracle

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Yanza

Initial release

2014

2013

1980

2001

2015

Current release

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

15585

23c, September 2023

3.5.1, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Community Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paid

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

commercial

free version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

but mainly used as a service provided by Yanza

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

yes

late-bound, schema-on-read capabilities

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

short, integer, long, float, double, decimal, string

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

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Proprietary protocol

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

any language that supports HTTP calls

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

Triggers

yes

Timer and event based

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

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

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

yes

can be realized in PL/SQL

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

isolation level can be parameterized

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

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

User concepts

Access control

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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