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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. Graph Engine 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

A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engine

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

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

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Rank	#126	Overall
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Score	0.61
Rank	#240	Overall
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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
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Website

phoenix.apache.org

www.graphengine.io

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

www.sadasengine.com

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

phoenix.apache.org

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

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

Microsoft

Oracle

SADAS s.r.l.

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2014

2010

2007

2006

2000

Current release

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

14.1, August 2023

8.0

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

free trial version available

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

.NET and C

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

.NET

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
Linux
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

yes

late-bound, schema-on-read capabilities

yes

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#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

.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

yes

Triggers

yes

Live Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica 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

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

optional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storage

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

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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