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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. Lovefield vs. Sphinx vs. SQream DB vs. Yanza

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NameApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  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 HBaseEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesa GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloadsTime Series DBMS for IoT Applications
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.02
Rank#130  Overall
#63  Relational DBMS
Score0.32
Rank#290  Overall
#132  Relational DBMS
Score6.03
Rank#60  Overall
#6  Search engines
Score0.73
Rank#228  Overall
#105  Relational DBMS
Websitephoenix.apache.orggoogle.github.io/­lovefieldsphinxsearch.comsqream.comyanza.com
Technical documentationphoenix.apache.orggithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mdsphinxsearch.com/­docsdocs.sqream.com
DeveloperApache Software FoundationGoogleSphinx Technologies Inc.SQream TechnologiesYanza
Initial release20142014200120172015
Current release5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 20192.1.12, February 20173.5.1, February 20232022.1.6, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availablecommercialcommercial infofree version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono infobut mainly used as a service provided by Yanza
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaJavaScriptC++C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxWindows
Data schemeyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesno
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)yesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBCProprietary protocol.Net
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
JavaScriptC++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
any language that supports HTTP calls
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnonouser defined functions in Pythonno
TriggersnoUsing read-only observersnonoyes infoTimer and event based
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedhorizontal and vertical partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
nonenonenonenone
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 ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infousing MemoryDB
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancynonono

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