DBMS > Apache Phoenix vs. Kyligence Enterprise vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Typesense

System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. Kyligence Enterprise vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Typesense

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Name

Description

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

A distributed analytics engine for big data, built on top of Apache Kylin

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

A typo-tolerant, in-memory search engine optimized for instant search-as-you-type experiences and developer productivity

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.97
Rank	#126	Overall
	#59	Relational DBMS

Score	0.40
Rank	#269	Overall
	#124	Relational DBMS

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	4.25
Rank	#79	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Score	0.79
Rank	#210	Overall
	#14	Search engines

Website

phoenix.apache.org

kyligence.io/kyligence-enterprise

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

typesense.org

Technical documentation

phoenix.apache.org

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

typesense.org/docs

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Kyligence, Inc.

Microsoft

SAP

formerly Sybase

Initial release

2014

2016

1989

1992

2015

Current release

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

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

17, July 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

Linux

Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

late-bound, schema-on-read capabilities

yes

schema-free

pre-defined schema optional

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

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net

community maintained
Clojure

community maintained
Dart

community maintained
Go

community maintained
Java

community maintained
JavaScript
Perl

community maintained
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust

community maintained
Swift

community maintained

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

Multi-source replication using RAFT

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

yes

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

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

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