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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. BaseX vs. BoltDB vs. ObjectBox vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Description

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

Light-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.

An embedded key-value store for Go.

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	2.06
Rank	#123	Overall
	#58	Relational DBMS

Score	1.84
Rank	#135	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	0.80
Rank	#215	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	1.29
Rank	#166	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

phoenix.apache.org

basex.org

github.com/boltdb/bolt

objectbox.io

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

BaseX GmbH

ObjectBox Limited

SAP

Initial release

2014

2007

2013

2017

2010

Current release

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

11.0, June 2024

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

yes

late-bound, schema-on-read capabilities

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XQuery supports types

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

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

Proprietary native API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

online/offline synchronization between client and server

yes

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

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

multiple readers, single writer

yes

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

yes

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