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DBMS > Apache Phoenix vs. HBase vs. Postgres-XL vs. Qdrant vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. HBase vs. Postgres-XL vs. Qdrant vs. Transbase

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NameApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonQdrant  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresA high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matchingA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSWide column storeRelational DBMSVector DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score1.97
Rank#126  Overall
#59  Relational DBMS
Score30.50
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score0.49
Rank#256  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score1.16
Rank#175  Overall
#6  Vector DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#341  Overall
#150  Relational DBMS
Websitephoenix.apache.orghbase.apache.orgwww.postgres-xl.orggithub.com/­qdrant/­qdrant
qdrant.tech
www.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationphoenix.apache.orghbase.apache.org/­book.htmlwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationqdrant.tech/­documentationwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperApache Software FoundationApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetQdrantTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release201420082014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB20211987
Current release5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 20192.3.4, January 202110 R1, October 2018Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaCRustC and C++
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows
Linux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Linux
macOS
Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesschema-free, schema definition possibleyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesoptions to bring your own types, AVROyesNumbers, Strings, Geo, Booleanyes
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.nonoyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalitynono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes infoKeywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-textyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyes infodistributed, parallel query executionnoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBCJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API infoOpenAPI 3.0
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyes infoCoprocessors in Javauser defined functionsyes
Triggersnoyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardinghorizontal partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
Collection-level replicationSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsHadoop integrationyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency, tunable consistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)ACID infoMVCCyes
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.yesyesnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancyAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardKey-based authenticationfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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