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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. SWC-DB

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Name

Description

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

Cloud-based data warehousing service

Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	2.06
Rank	#123	Overall
	#58	Relational DBMS

Score	1.37
Rank	#160	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Score	19.93
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#364	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

phoenix.apache.org

www.ibm.com/products/db2/warehouse

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

phoenix.apache.org

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

IBM

Microsoft

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2014

2016

2020

Current release

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

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

hosted

Linux

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.

Import/export of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

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

Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

C#
Java
PHP

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

PL/SQL, SQL PL

Transact SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

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

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints

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

yes

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