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DBMS > Apache Phoenix vs. GeoMesa vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. ObjectBox vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. GeoMesa vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. ObjectBox vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

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NameApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Table Storage  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.A Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasetsExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileRDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSWide column storeObject oriented DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
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Score1.97
Rank#126  Overall
#59  Relational DBMS
Score0.78
Rank#213  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score4.48
Rank#75  Overall
#6  Wide column stores
Score1.20
Rank#170  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score4.25
Rank#79  Overall
#43  Relational DBMS
Websitephoenix.apache.orgwww.geomesa.orgazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­storage/­tablesobjectbox.iowww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.html
Technical documentationphoenix.apache.orgwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmldocs.objectbox.iohelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywhere
DeveloperApache Software FoundationCCRi and othersMicrosoftObjectBox LimitedSAP infoformerly Sybase
Initial release20142014201220171992
Current release5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 20194.0.5, February 202417, July 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache License 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaScalaC and C++
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows
hostedAndroid
iOS
Linux
macOS
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.nonononoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnononoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBCRESTful HTTP APIProprietary native APIADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnononoyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl
Triggersnonononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingdepending on storage layerSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
depending on storage layeryes infoimplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.online/offline synchronization between client and serverSource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroring
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsHadoop integrationyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistencydepending on storage layerImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnooptimistic lockingACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.yesdepending on storage layernonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancyyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageAccess rights based on private key authentication or shared access signaturesyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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