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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. Google BigQuery vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. TimesTen

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Name

SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

An in-memory SQL relational database that delivers microsecond response and high throughput for OLTP applications. TimesTen can be deployed as a standalone database or as a cache to a backend Oracle database.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.90
Rank	#125	Overall
	#59	Relational DBMS

Score	52.67
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	1.26
Rank	#164	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Website

phoenix.apache.org

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

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

Technical documentation

phoenix.apache.org

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/timesten/index.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Google

Sybase, SAP

Oracle

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

2014

2010

1993

1998

Current release

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

Release 22.1

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

hosted

Linux
Windows

IBM AIX Power PC 64-bit
Linux arm64
Linux x86-64
Solaris SPARC 64
Solaris SPARC/x86
Solaris x86-64

Data scheme

yes

late-bound, schema-on-read capabilities

yes

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

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Pro*C/C++ programming interfaces
SQL and PL/SQL via JDBC

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

Delphi
Perl
PHP

C
C++
Java
Node.js
PL/SQL
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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