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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. HyperSQL vs. NuoDB vs. Ultipa

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Name

Description

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

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

High performance Graph DBMS supporting HTAP high availability cluster deployment

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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Score	2.06
Rank	#123	Overall
	#58	Relational DBMS

Score	3.23
Rank	#93	Overall
	#48	Relational DBMS

Score	0.94
Rank	#197	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Score	0.19
Rank	#330	Overall
	#30	Graph DBMS

Website

phoenix.apache.org

hsqldb.org

www.3ds.com/nuodb-distributed-sql-database

www.ultipa.com

Technical documentation

phoenix.apache.org

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

doc.nuodb.com

www.ultipa.com/document

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

Ultipa

Initial release

2014

2001

2013

2019

Current release

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

2.7.2, June 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

based on BSD license

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Embedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

late-bound, schema-on-read capabilities

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Java, SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

tunable commit protocol

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

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

Temporary table

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

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

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