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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. Datomic vs. Faircom DB vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

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NameApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonFaircom DB infoformerly c-treeACE  Xexclude from comparisonSAP Advantage Database Server infoformer name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparison
SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityNative high-speed multi-model DBMS for relational and key-value store data simultaneously accessible through SQL and NoSQL APIs.Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.90
Rank#125  Overall
#59  Relational DBMS
Score1.55
Rank#144  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score0.18
Rank#314  Overall
#45  Key-value stores
#141  Relational DBMS
Websitephoenix.apache.orgwww.datomic.comwww.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-dbwww.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html
Technical documentationphoenix.apache.orgdocs.datomic.comdocs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-7446ae34-a1a7-c843-c894-d5322e395184.html
DeveloperApache Software FoundationCognitectFairCom CorporationSybase, SAP
Initial release2014201219791993
Current release5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 20191.0.7180, July 2024V13, July 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infolimited edition freecommercial infoRestricted, free version availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaJava, ClojureANSI C, C++
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows
All OS with a Java VMAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
QNX
SCO
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows infoeasily portable to other OSs
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesyesschema free, schema optional, schema required, partial schema,yes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes, ANSI SQL Types, JSON, typed binary structuresyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensionsyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBCRESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
Direct SQL
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful MQTT/JSON API
RPC
.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
Clojure
Java
.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js and browser)
PHP
Python
Visual Basic
Delphi
Perl
PHP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyes infoTransaction Functionsyes info.Net, JavaScript, C/C++yes
TriggersnoBy using transaction functionsyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersFile partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding infoCustomizable business rules for table partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersyes, configurable to be parallel or serial, synchronous or asynchronous, uni-directional or bi-directional, ACID-consistent or eventually consistent (with custom conflict resolution).Multi-source replication infoCONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsHadoop integrationnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Tunable consistency per server, database, table, and transaction
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDtunable from ACID to Eventually ConsistentACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)Yes, tunable from durable to delayed durability to in-memoryyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes inforecommended only for testing and developmentyesno infocaching of (temporary) tables can be configured
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancynoFine grained access rights according to SQL-standard with additional protections for filesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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