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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. Ingres vs. Spark SQL vs. VelocityDB

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Name

Description

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

Well established RDBMS

Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

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Score	2.06
Rank	#123	Overall
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Score	3.80
Rank	#82	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Score	18.04
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#354	Overall
	#37	Graph DBMS
	#15	Object oriented DBMS

Website

phoenix.apache.org

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

spark.apache.org/sql

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

phoenix.apache.org

docs.actian.com/ingres

spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-programming-guide.html

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Actian Corporation

Apache Software Foundation

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2014

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

2014

2011

Current release

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

11.2, May 2022

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Scala

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Any that supports .NET

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.

but tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

JDBC
ODBC

.Net

Supported programming languages

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

Java
Python
R
Scala

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

yes, utilizing Spark Core

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Ingres Replicator

none

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

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

Based on Windows Authentication

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