DBMS > Apache Phoenix vs. EXASOL vs. Hazelcast vs. Interbase vs. SAP HANA

System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. EXASOL vs. Hazelcast vs. Interbase vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Description

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

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

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	2.06
Rank	#123	Overall
	#58	Relational DBMS

Score	1.76
Rank	#139	Overall
	#62	Relational DBMS

Score	5.46
Rank	#61	Overall
	#7	Key-value stores

Score	4.08
Rank	#75	Overall
	#41	Relational DBMS

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

phoenix.apache.org

www.exasol.com

hazelcast.com

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

phoenix.apache.org

www.exasol.com/resources

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Exasol

Hazelcast

Embarcadero

SAP

Initial release

2014

2000

2008

1984

2010

Current release

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

5.3.6, November 2023

InterBase 2020, December 2019

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

yes

late-bound, schema-on-read capabilities

yes

schema-free

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.

yes

the object must implement a serialization strategy

export as XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

Java
Lua
Python
R

.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Replicated Map

Interbase Change Views

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

yes

Hadoop integration

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user

Raft Consensus Algorithm

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

one or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commited

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

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

Role-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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