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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. DuckDB vs. EsgynDB vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search

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Name

Description

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

An embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMS

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

Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Score	1.90
Rank	#125	Overall
	#59	Relational DBMS

Score	5.61
Rank	#60	Overall
	#34	Relational DBMS

Score	0.15
Rank	#325	Overall
	#144	Relational DBMS

Score	5.75
Rank	#58	Overall
	#7	Search engines

Website

phoenix.apache.org

duckdb.org

www.esgyn.cn

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/search

Technical documentation

phoenix.apache.org

duckdb.org/docs

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Esgyn

Microsoft

Initial release

2014

2018

2015

Current release

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

1.0.0, June 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

C++, Java

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

server-less

Linux

hosted

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

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

Arrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

C
C#

3rd party driver
C++
Crystal

3rd party driver
Go

3rd party driver
Java
Lisp

3rd party driver
Python
R
Ruby

3rd party driver
Rust
Swift
Zig

3rd party driver

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

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

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

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

yes

using Azure authentication

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