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DBMS > Apache Phoenix vs. EsgynDB vs. H2 vs. HyperSQL vs. MonetDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. EsgynDB vs. H2 vs. HyperSQL vs. MonetDB

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NameApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonEsgynDB  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDB  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseEnterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache TrafodionFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java infoalso known as HSQLDBA relational database management system that stores data in columns
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score2.06
Rank#123  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score0.25
Rank#312  Overall
#138  Relational DBMS
Score8.33
Rank#46  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score3.23
Rank#93  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#141  Overall
#64  Relational DBMS
Websitephoenix.apache.orgwww.esgyn.cnwww.h2database.comhsqldb.orgwww.monetdb.org
Technical documentationphoenix.apache.orgwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlhsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.htmlwww.monetdb.org/­Documentation
DeveloperApache Software FoundationEsgynThomas MuellerMonetDB BV
Initial release20142015200520012004
Current release5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 20192.2.220, July 20232.7.2, June 2023Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)Open Source infobased on BSD licenseOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++, JavaJavaJavaC
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows
LinuxAll OS with a Java VMAll OS with a Java VM infoEmbedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modesFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesyesyesyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensions
APIs and other access methodsJDBCADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API infoJDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.NetJavaAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsJava Stored ProceduresJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined FunctionsJava, SQLyes, in SQL, C, R
Triggersnonoyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnonenoneSharding via remote tables
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication between multi datacentersWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databasenonenone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental status
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsHadoop integrationyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
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.yesnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancyfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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