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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. SAP HANA vs. searchxml

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Name

Description

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

A containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalability

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	1.90
Rank	#125	Overall
	#59	Relational DBMS

Score	2.98
Rank	#91	Overall
	#17	Document stores
	#14	Key-value stores
	#1	Object oriented DBMS
	#49	Relational DBMS

Score	41.32
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Website

phoenix.apache.org

www.intersystems.com/products/intersystems-iris

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.searchxml.net/category/products

Technical documentation

phoenix.apache.org

docs.intersystems.com/irislatest/csp/docbook/DocBook.UI.Page.cls

help.sap.com/hana

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

InterSystems

SAP

informationpartners gmbh

Initial release

2014

2018

2010

2015

Current release

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

2023.3, June 2023

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Windows

Data scheme

yes

late-bound, schema-on-read capabilities

depending on used data model

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

SQLScript, R

yes

on the application server

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

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

multiple readers, single writer

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

yes

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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