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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. EventStoreDB vs. EXASOL vs. HyperSQL vs. SwayDB

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Name

Description

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

Industrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.

High-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

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Score	2.06
Rank	#123	Overall
	#58	Relational DBMS

Score	1.19
Rank	#173	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

Score	1.76
Rank	#139	Overall
	#62	Relational DBMS

Score	3.23
Rank	#93	Overall
	#48	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#387	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Website

Technical documentation

phoenix.apache.org

developers.eventstore.com

www.exasol.com/resources

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Event Store Limited

Exasol

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2014

2012

2000

2001

2018

Current release

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

21.2, February 2021

2.7.2, June 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

based on BSD license

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Scala

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

Linux
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Embedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes

Data scheme

yes

late-bound, schema-on-read capabilities

yes

schema-free

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

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

Java
Lua
Python
R

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Java, SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

yes

Hadoop integration

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

Atomic execution of operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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