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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. IBM Db2 vs. mSQL vs. Newts

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Name

Description

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

Common in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/Linux

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Since Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDB

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

in Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS

with Db2 Spatial Extender

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Score	2.06
Rank	#123	Overall
	#58	Relational DBMS

Score	125.90
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	1.27
Rank	#169	Overall
	#76	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#375	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Website

phoenix.apache.org

www.ibm.com/products/db2

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

opennms.github.io/newts

Technical documentation

phoenix.apache.org

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

IBM

Hughes Technologies

OpenNMS Group

Initial release

2014

1983

host version

1994

2014

Current release

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

12.1, October 2016

4.4, October 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

free version is available

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

Apache 2.0

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 and C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

late-bound, schema-on-read capabilities

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries

MongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST
Java API

Supported programming languages

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

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

only with Windows/Unix/Linux Version

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

with separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)

none

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

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

none

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

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