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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. Greenplum vs. OrientDB vs. SAP HANA vs. SurrealDB

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Name

Description

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

Analytic Database platform built on PostgreSQL. Full name is Pivotal Greenplum Database

A logical database in Greenplum is an array of individual PostgreSQL databases working together to present a single database image.

Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.97
Rank	#126	Overall
	#59	Relational DBMS

Score	8.37
Rank	#48	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Score	3.19
Rank	#93	Overall
	#16	Document stores
	#7	Graph DBMS
	#14	Key-value stores

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.86
Rank	#203	Overall
	#34	Document stores
	#18	Graph DBMS

Website

phoenix.apache.org

greenplum.org

orientdb.org

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

surrealdb.com

Technical documentation

phoenix.apache.org

docs.greenplum.org

www.orientdb.com/docs/last/index.html

help.sap.com/hana

surrealdb.com/docs

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Pivotal Software Inc.

OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP

SAP

SurrealDB Ltd

Initial release

2014

2005

2010

2022

Current release

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

7.0.0, September 2023

3.2.29, March 2024

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

v1.5.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Java

Rust

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

Linux

All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

late-bound, schema-on-read capabilities

yes

schema-free

Schema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")

yes

schema-free

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.

yes

since Version 4.2

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language, no joins

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

JDBC
ODBC

Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

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

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Java, Javascript

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Hooks

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

yes

could be achieved with distributed queries

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationship in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

yes

yes, based on authentication and database rules

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