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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. DuckDB vs. Sphinx vs. SQream DB vs. Yanza

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NameApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonDuckDB  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparisonYanza  Xexclude from comparison
Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseAn embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMSOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesa GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloadsTime Series DBMS for IoT Applications
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.97
Rank#126  Overall
#59  Relational DBMS
Score4.57
Rank#74  Overall
#40  Relational DBMS
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.70
Rank#227  Overall
#104  Relational DBMS
Websitephoenix.apache.orgduckdb.orgsphinxsearch.comsqream.comyanza.com
Technical documentationphoenix.apache.orgduckdb.org/­docssphinxsearch.com/­docsdocs.sqream.com
DeveloperApache Software FoundationSphinx Technologies Inc.SQream TechnologiesYanza
Initial release20142018200120172015
Current release5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 20190.10, February 20243.5.1, February 20232022.1.6, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availablecommercialcommercial infofree version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono infobut mainly used as a service provided by Yanza
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaC++C++C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows
server-lessFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxWindows
Data schemeyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesno
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)yesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBCArrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol.Net
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C
C# info3rd party driver
C++
Crystal info3rd party driver
Go info3rd party driver
Java
Lisp info3rd party driver
Python
R
Ruby info3rd party driver
Rust
Swift
Zig info3rd party driver
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
any language that supports HTTP calls
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnonouser defined functions in Pythonno
Triggersnonononoyes infoTimer and event based
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedhorizontal and vertical partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
nonenonenonenone
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 integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancynonono

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