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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Sphinx vs. TinkerGraph vs. Yanza

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NameApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDB  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  Xexclude from comparisonYanza  Xexclude from comparison
Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseCloud-based data warehousing serviceOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 APITime Series DBMS for IoT Applications
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engineGraph DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.97
Rank#126  Overall
#59  Relational DBMS
Score1.30
Rank#164  Overall
#75  Relational DBMS
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.08
Rank#348  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
Websitephoenix.apache.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2/­warehousesphinxsearch.comtinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlinyanza.com
Technical documentationphoenix.apache.orgsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperApache Software FoundationIBMSphinx Technologies Inc.Yanza
Initial release20142014200120092015
Current release5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 20193.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono infobut mainly used as a service provided by Yanza
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Implementation languageJavaC++Java
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows
hostedFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Windows
Data schemeyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesno
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 indexesyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)nono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocolTinkerPop 3HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Groovy
Java
any language that supports HTTP calls
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsPL/SQL, SQL PLnonono
Triggersnoyesnonoyes infoTimer and event based
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportednonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesnonenonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsHadoop integrationnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyes infoRelationships in graphsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesnoyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.optionalyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
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-standardnonono

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