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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. Dragonfly vs. Faircom DB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

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NameApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonFaircom DB infoformerly c-treeACE  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseA drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instanceNative high-speed multi-model DBMS for relational and key-value store data simultaneously accessible through SQL and NoSQL APIs.RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.06
Rank#123  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#261  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score0.29
Rank#304  Overall
#43  Key-value stores
#136  Relational DBMS
Score3.95
Rank#80  Overall
#42  Relational DBMS
Websitephoenix.apache.orggithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
www.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-dbwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.html
Technical documentationphoenix.apache.orgwww.dragonflydb.io/­docsdocs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-7446ae34-a1a7-c843-c894-d5322e395184.htmlhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywhere
DeveloperApache Software FoundationDragonflyDB team and community contributorsFairCom CorporationSAP infoformerly Sybase
Initial release2014202319791992
Current release5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 20191.0, March 2023V12, November 202017, July 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoBSL 1.1commercial infoRestricted, free version availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++ANSI C, C++
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows
LinuxAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
QNX
SCO
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows infoeasily portable to other OSs
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesscheme-freeschema free, schema optional, schema required, partial schema,yes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesstrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysyes, 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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensionsyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBCProprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolADO.NET
Direct SQL
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful MQTT/JSON API
RPC
ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C
C#
C++
Clojure
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Tcl
.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js and browser)
PHP
Python
Visual Basic
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsLuayes info.Net, JavaScript, C/C++yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl
Triggersnopublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalityyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingFile 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
Source-replica replicationyes, configurable to be parallel or serial, synchronous or asynchronous, uni-directional or bi-directional, ACID-consistent or eventually consistent (with custom conflict resolution).Source-replica replication infoDatabase mirroring
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsHadoop integrationnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyEventual 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 dataACIDAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptstunable from ACID to Eventually ConsistentACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, strict serializability by the serveryesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesYes, 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.yesyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancyPassword-based authenticationFine grained access rights according to SQL-standard with additional protections for filesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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