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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. FatDB vs. Oracle Rdb

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Name

FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.

Description

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

A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

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Score	2.02
Rank	#130	Overall
	#63	Relational DBMS

Score	1.08
Rank	#187	Overall
	#85	Relational DBMS

Website

phoenix.apache.org

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

Technical documentation

phoenix.apache.org

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

FatCloud

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Initial release

2014

2012

1984

Current release

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

7.4.1.1, 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

Windows

HP Open VMS

Data scheme

yes

late-bound, schema-on-read capabilities

schema-free

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, 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

Via inetgration in SQL Server

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings

Supported programming languages

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

via applications

Triggers

yes

via applications

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes, on a single node

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

Can implement custom security layer via applications

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