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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. Bangdb vs. Faircom DB vs. HyperSQL

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Name

Description

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

Converged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graph

Native high-speed multi-model DBMS for relational and key-value store data simultaneously accessible through SQL and NoSQL APIs.

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	2.06
Rank	#123	Overall
	#58	Relational DBMS

Score	0.16
Rank	#338	Overall
	#47	Document stores
	#32	Graph DBMS
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#304	Overall
	#43	Key-value stores
	#136	Relational DBMS

Score	3.23
Rank	#93	Overall
	#48	Relational DBMS

Website

phoenix.apache.org

bangdb.com

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-db

hsqldb.org

Technical documentation

phoenix.apache.org

docs.bangdb.com

docs.faircom.com/docs/en/UUID-7446ae34-a1a7-c843-c894-d5322e395184.html

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

FairCom Corporation

Initial release

2014

2012

1979

2001

Current release

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

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

V12, November 2020

2.7.2, June 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

BSD 3

commercial

Restricted, free version available

Open Source

based on BSD license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C, C++

ANSI C, C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

Linux

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
QNX
SCO
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

easily portable to other OSs

All OS with a Java VM

Embedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes

Data scheme

yes

late-bound, schema-on-read capabilities

schema-free

schema free, schema optional, schema required, partial schema,

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, events

yes, ANSI SQL Types, JSON, typed binary structures

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

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL like support with command line tool

yes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
Direct SQL
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful MQTT/JSON API
RPC

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js and browser)
PHP
Python
Visual Basic

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

Java, SQL

Triggers

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Sharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithm

File partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding

Customizable business rules for table partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)

yes, configurable to be parallel or serial, synchronous or asynchronous, uni-directional or bi-directional, ACID-consistent or eventually consistent (with custom conflict resolution).

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 or Eventual Consistency

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Tunable consistency per server, database, table, and transaction

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

tunable from ACID to Eventually Consistent

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, optimistic concurrency control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as well

Yes, tunable from durable to delayed durability to in-memory

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

yes, run db with in-memory only mode

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

yes (enterprise version only)

Fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard with additional protections for files

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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