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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. GBase vs. HBase vs. SWC-DB

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Name

Description

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

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	2.06
Rank	#123	Overall
	#58	Relational DBMS

Score	1.05
Rank	#186	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	27.97
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	0.08
Rank	#364	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

phoenix.apache.org

www.gbase.cn

hbase.apache.org

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

phoenix.apache.org

hbase.apache.org/book.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2014

2004

2008

2020

Current release

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

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

2.3.4, January 2021

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C, Java, Python

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

Linux

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

Linux

Data scheme

yes

late-bound, schema-on-read capabilities

yes

schema-free, schema definition possible

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

options to bring your own types, AVRO

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Standard with numerous extensions

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

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

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Coprocessors in Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

Immediate Consistency

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

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

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

yes

Access Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

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