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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. EventStoreDB vs. HyperSQL vs. SAP HANA

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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.

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Event Store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.97
Rank	#126	Overall
	#59	Relational DBMS

Score	1.10
Rank	#179	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

Score	3.49
Rank	#87	Overall
	#47	Relational DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

phoenix.apache.org

www.eventstore.com

hsqldb.org

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

phoenix.apache.org

developers.eventstore.com

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Event Store Limited

SAP

Initial release

2014

2012

2001

2010

Current release

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

21.2, February 2021

2.7.2, June 2023

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

based on BSD license

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

Linux
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

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

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

yes

late-bound, schema-on-read capabilities

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Java, SQL

SQLScript, R

Triggers

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

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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