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DBMS > Apache Phoenix vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. StarRocks

System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. StarRocks

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NameApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonStarRocks  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseCloud-based data warehousing serviceElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerAn open source, high-performance columnar analytical database that enables real-time, multi-dimensional, and highly concurrent data analytics infoForked from Apache Doris
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.06
Rank#123  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score1.37
Rank#160  Overall
#74  Relational DBMS
Score19.93
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score0.93
Rank#198  Overall
#93  Relational DBMS
Websitephoenix.apache.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2/­warehouseazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticswww.starrocks.io
Technical documentationphoenix.apache.orgdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticsdocs.starrocks.io/­en-us/­latest/­introduction/­StarRocks_intro
DeveloperApache Software FoundationIBMMicrosoftThe Linux Foundation infosince Feb 2023
Initial release2014201420162020
Current release5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 20192.5.3, March 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesyesno
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Implementation languageJavaC++C++, Java
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows
hostedhostedLinux
Data schemeyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.nono infoImport/export of XML data possiblenono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesyesyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
MySQL protocol
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C#
Java
PHP
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsPL/SQL, SQL PLTransact SQLuser defined functions
Triggersnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding, horizontal partitioninghorizontal partitioning (by range and hash)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesyes
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 ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesno infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancyfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesRole based access control and fine grained access rights

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