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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. HarperDB vs. mSQL vs. Transbase

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NameApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonHarperDB  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseUltra-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.mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.02
Rank#130  Overall
#63  Relational DBMS
Score0.55
Rank#252  Overall
#38  Document stores
Score1.67
Rank#151  Overall
#70  Relational DBMS
Score0.15
Rank#337  Overall
#147  Relational DBMS
Websitephoenix.apache.orgwww.harperdb.iohughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationphoenix.apache.orgdocs.harperdb.io/­docswww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperApache Software FoundationHarperDBHughes TechnologiesTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release2014201719941987
Current release5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 20193.1, August 20214.4, October 2021Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infofree community edition availablecommercial infofree licenses can be providedcommercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaNode.jsCC and C++
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesdynamic schemayesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infoJSON data typesyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like data manipulation statementsA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBCJDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesC
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++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsCustom Functions infosince release 3.1noyes
Triggersnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingA table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a clusternone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes infothe nodes on which a table resides can be definednoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsHadoop integrationnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDAtomic execution of specific operationsnoyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesnoyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, using LMDByesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancyAccess rights for users and rolesnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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