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DBMS > Apache Phoenix vs. MarkLogic vs. Postgres-XL vs. Spark SQL vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. MarkLogic vs. Postgres-XL vs. Spark SQL vs. Transbase

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NameApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonMarkLogic  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseOperational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL databaseBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store infoas of version 7
Search engine
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.10
Rank#131  Overall
#63  Relational DBMS
Score7.08
Rank#56  Overall
#10  Document stores
#1  Native XML DBMS
#1  RDF stores
#5  Search engines
Score0.56
Rank#253  Overall
#115  Relational DBMS
Score19.56
Rank#34  Overall
#21  Relational DBMS
Score0.20
Rank#327  Overall
#144  Relational DBMS
Websitephoenix.apache.orgwww.marklogic.comwww.postgres-xl.orgspark.apache.org/­sqlwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationphoenix.apache.orgdocs.marklogic.comwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.htmlwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperApache Software FoundationMarkLogic Corp.Apache Software FoundationTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release201420012014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB20141987
Current release5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 201911.0, December 202210 R1, October 20183.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial inforestricted free version is availableOpen Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++CScalaC and C++
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesschema-free infoSchema can be enforcedyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.noyesyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalitynono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyes infoSQL92yes infodistributed, parallel query executionSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBCJava API
Node.js Client API
ODBC
proprietary Optic API infoProprietary Query API, introduced with version 9
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
WebDAV
XDBC
XQuery
XSLT
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Java
Python
R
Scala
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyes infovia XQuery or JavaScriptuser defined functionsnoyes
Triggersnoyesyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardinghorizontal partitioningyes, utilizing Spark Core
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesnoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsHadoop integrationyes infovia Hadoop Connector, HDFS Direct Access and in-database MapReduce jobsnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID infocan act as a resource manager in an XA/JTA transactionACID infoMVCCnoyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes, with Range Indexesnonono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancyRole-based access control at the document and subdocument levelsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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