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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. Drizzle vs. NuoDB vs. StarRocks vs. Yanza

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NameApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonNuoDB  Xexclude from comparisonStarRocks  Xexclude from comparisonYanza  Xexclude from comparison
Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseMySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactionsAn open source, high-performance columnar analytical database that enables real-time, multi-dimensional, and highly concurrent data analytics infoForked from Apache DorisTime Series DBMS for IoT Applications
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.06
Rank#123  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score0.94
Rank#197  Overall
#92  Relational DBMS
Score0.93
Rank#198  Overall
#93  Relational DBMS
Websitephoenix.apache.orgwww.3ds.com/­nuodb-distributed-sql-databasewww.starrocks.ioyanza.com
Technical documentationphoenix.apache.orgdoc.nuodb.comdocs.starrocks.io/­en-us/­latest/­introduction/­StarRocks_intro
DeveloperApache Software FoundationDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerDassault Systèmes infooriginally NuoDB, Inc.The Linux Foundation infosince Feb 2023Yanza
Initial release20142008201320202015
Current release5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 20197.2.4, September 20122.5.3, March 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGNU GPLcommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infofree version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono infobut mainly used as a service provided by Yanza
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Implementation languageJavaC++C++C++, Java
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
hosted infoAmazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxWindows
Data schemeyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
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 indexesyesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyes infowith proprietary extensionsyesyesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBCJDBCADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
MySQL protocol
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C
C++
Java
PHP
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Javaany language that supports HTTP calls
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnoJava, SQLuser defined functionsno
Triggersnono infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.yesnoyes infoTimer and event based
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingdata is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/writtenhorizontal partitioning (by range and hash)none
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes infoManaged transparently by NuoDBnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsHadoop integrationnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID infotunable commit protocolnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMVCCyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoTemporary tableno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancyPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPStandard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative UsersRole based access control and fine grained access rightsno

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