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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. MaxDB vs. Transwarp Hippo

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Name

Description

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

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

Cloud-native distributed Vector DBMS that supports storage, retrieval, and management of massive vector-based datasets

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Vector DBMS

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Score	1.84
Rank	#122	Overall
	#59	Relational DBMS

Score	1.95
Rank	#117	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#383	Overall
	#21	Vector DBMS

Website

phoenix.apache.org

maxdb.sap.com

www.transwarp.cn/en/subproduct/hippo

Technical documentation

phoenix.apache.org

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

Initial release

2014

1984

2023

Current release

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

7.9.10.12, February 2024

1.0, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Limited community edition free

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

late-bound, schema-on-read capabilities

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Vector, Numeric and String

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

C++
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

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

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

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

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