DBMS > Apache Phoenix vs. ClickHouse vs. Interbase vs. OpenSearch vs. Yanza

System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. ClickHouse vs. Interbase vs. OpenSearch 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

A high-performance, column-oriented SQL DBMS for online analytical processing (OLAP) that uses all available system resources to their full potential to process each analytical query as fast as possible. It is available as both an open-source software and a cloud offering.

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Vector DBMS

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Score	1.97
Rank	#126	Overall
	#59	Relational DBMS

Score	16.34
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	4.61
Rank	#72	Overall
	#39	Relational DBMS

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Website

phoenix.apache.org

clickhouse.com

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

yanza.com

Technical documentation

phoenix.apache.org

clickhouse.com/docs

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

opensearch.org/docs/latest

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Clickhouse Inc.

Embarcadero

Amazon Web Services

Yanza

Initial release

2014

2016

1984

2021

2015

Current release

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

v24.4.1.2088-stable, May 2024

InterBase 2020, December 2019

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

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++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Windows

Data scheme

yes

late-bound, schema-on-read capabilities

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

schema-free

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.

export as XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MySQL wire protocol
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Proprietary protocol

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

3rd party library
C++
Elixir

3rd party library
Go

3rd party library
Java

3rd party library
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party library
Kotlin

3rd party library
Nim

3rd party library
Perl

3rd party library
PHP

3rd party library
Python

3rd party library
R

3rd party library
Ruby

3rd party library
Rust
Scala

3rd party library

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

any language that supports HTTP calls

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Timer and event based

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

key based and custom

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Asynchronous and synchronous physical replication; geographically distributed replicas; support for object storages.

Interbase Change Views

yes

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

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

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 for users and roles. Column and row based policies. Quotas and resource limits. Pluggable authentication with LDAP and Kerberos. Password based, X.509 certificate, and SSH key authentication.

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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