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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. Fauna vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Sadas Engine vs. SQLite

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Name

Description

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

Fauna provides a web-native interface, with support for GraphQL and custom business logic that integrates seamlessly with the rest of the serverless ecosystem. The underlying globally distributed storage and compute platform is fast, consistent, and reliable, with a modern security infrastructure.

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.97
Rank	#126	Overall
	#59	Relational DBMS

Score	1.52
Rank	#153	Overall
	#26	Document stores
	#14	Graph DBMS
	#71	Relational DBMS
	#13	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.92
Rank	#130	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#158	Relational DBMS

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

phoenix.apache.org

fauna.com

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

www.sadasengine.com

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

phoenix.apache.org

docs.fauna.com

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Fauna, Inc.

Oracle

SADAS s.r.l.

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2014

2007

2006

2000

Current release

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

14.1, August 2023

8.0

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

free trial version available

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Scala

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
Linux
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

yes

late-bound, schema-on-read capabilities

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

RESTful HTTP API

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

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

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift

.Net
C++
Java

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Live Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

consistent hashing

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

yes, with selectable consistency level

none

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

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

configurable

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optionally

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancy

Identity management, authentication, and access control

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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