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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. EXASOL vs. Hazelcast vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Interbase

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NameApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonHazelcast  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.A widely adopted in-memory data gridDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBLight-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from Borland
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.06
Rank#123  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score1.76
Rank#139  Overall
#62  Relational DBMS
Score5.46
Rank#61  Overall
#7  Key-value stores
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score4.08
Rank#75  Overall
#41  Relational DBMS
Websitephoenix.apache.orgwww.exasol.comhazelcast.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbase
Technical documentationphoenix.apache.orgwww.exasol.com/­resourceshazelcast.org/­imdg/­docscloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbase
DeveloperApache Software FoundationExasolHazelcastIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Embarcadero
Initial release20142000200820101984
Current release5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 20195.3.6, November 2023InterBase 2020, December 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availablecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaJavaErlangC
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows
All OS with a Java VMhostedAndroid
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes
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.nonoyes infothe object must implement a serialization strategynono infoexport as XML data possible
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesSQL-like query languagenoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
Java
Lua
Python
R
.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsuser defined functionsyes infoEvent Listeners, Executor ServicesView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger language
Triggersnoyesyes infoEventsyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes infoReplicated MapMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Interbase Change Views
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsHadoop integrationyes infoHadoop integrationyesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus AlgorithmEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commitedno infoatomic operations within a document possibleACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoOptimistic lockingyes infoMultiversion concurreny control
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.yesyesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancyAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardRole-based access controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databasefine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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