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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. HarperDB vs. HBase vs. SAP IQ vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

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

Ultra-low latency distributed database with an intuitive REST API supporting NoSQL and SQL (including joins). Deployment of functions and databases simultaneously with a consolidated node-level architecture.

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

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

column-oriented

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Trend Chart

Score	2.02
Rank	#130	Overall
	#63	Relational DBMS

Score	0.55
Rank	#252	Overall
	#38	Document stores

Score	31.25
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	3.27
Rank	#96	Overall
	#50	Relational DBMS

Score	0.15
Rank	#337	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Website

phoenix.apache.org

www.harperdb.io

hbase.apache.org

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

phoenix.apache.org

docs.harperdb.io/docs

hbase.apache.org/book.html

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

HarperDB

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

SAP, formerly Sybase

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2014

2017

2008

1994

1987

Current release

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

3.1, August 2021

2.3.4, January 2021

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Node.js

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

Linux
OS X

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

late-bound, schema-on-read capabilities

dynamic schema

schema-free, schema definition possible

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON data types

options to bring your own types, AVRO

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

SQL-like data manipulation statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Custom Functions

since release 3.1

yes

Coprocessors in Java

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

A table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a cluster

Sharding

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

the nodes on which a table resides can be defined

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

yes

Hadoop integration

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

Atomic execution of specific operations

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, using LMDB

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

Access rights for users and roles

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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