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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. Cubrid vs. EsgynDB vs. mSQL vs. Spark SQL

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Name

Description

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

CUBRID is an open-source SQL-based relational database management system with object extensions for OLTP

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.97
Rank	#126	Overall
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Score	1.20
Rank	#169	Overall
	#78	Relational DBMS

Score	0.16
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	1.27
Rank	#167	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

Score	18.96
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Website

phoenix.apache.org

cubrid.com (korean)
cubrid.org (english)

www.esgyn.cn

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

spark.apache.org/sql

Technical documentation

phoenix.apache.org

cubrid.org/manuals

spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-programming-guide.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

Esgyn

Hughes Technologies

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2014

2008

2015

1994

2014

Current release

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

11.0, January 2021

4.4, October 2021

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C, C++, Java

C++, Java

Scala

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

late-bound, schema-on-read capabilities

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

Java
Python
R
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

none

yes, utilizing Spark Core

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

none

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

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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