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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. Firebird vs. GigaSpaces vs. NuoDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

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NameApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonGigaSpaces  Xexclude from comparisonNuoDB  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseHigh performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented TransactionsNuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactionsRDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS infoValues are user defined objects
Relational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
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Score2.06
Rank#123  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score20.50
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score1.03
Rank#188  Overall
#32  Document stores
#6  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.94
Rank#197  Overall
#92  Relational DBMS
Score3.95
Rank#80  Overall
#42  Relational DBMS
Websitephoenix.apache.orgwww.firebirdsql.orgwww.gigaspaces.comwww.3ds.com/­nuodb-distributed-sql-databasewww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.html
Technical documentationphoenix.apache.orgwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsdocs.gigaspaces.com/­latest/­landing.htmldoc.nuodb.comhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywhere
DeveloperApache Software FoundationFirebird FoundationGigaspaces TechnologiesDassault Systèmes infooriginally NuoDB, Inc.SAP infoformerly Sybase
Initial release20142000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase200020131992
Current release5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 20195.0.0, January 202415.5, September 202017, July 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial licenses availablecommercial infolimited edition freecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++Java, C++, .NetC++
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows
AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
hosted infoAmazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesyesschema-freeyesyes
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.nono infoXML can be used for describing objects metadatanoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesSQL-99 for query and DML statementsyesyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBCADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsPSQLyesJava, SQLyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl
Triggersnoyesyes, event driven architectureyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingdata is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/writtennone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationMulti-source replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
yes infoManaged transparently by NuoDBSource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroring
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsHadoop integrationnoyes infoMap-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executorsnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANYImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACID infotunable commit protocolACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyes infoMVCCyes
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.yesyesyes infoTemporary tableyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancyUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptRole-based access controlStandard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Usersfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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