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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. Sequoiadb vs. STSdb

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Name

Description

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

A Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasets

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Document store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	2.06
Rank	#123	Overall
	#58	Relational DBMS

Score	4.04
Rank	#77	Overall
	#6	Wide column stores

Score	0.50
Rank	#258	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#120	Relational DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#357	Overall
	#51	Key-value stores

Website

phoenix.apache.org

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/storage/tables

www.sequoiadb.com

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

phoenix.apache.org

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Microsoft

Sequoiadb Ltd.

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2014

2012

2013

2011

Current release

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

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

hosted

Linux

Windows

Data scheme

yes

late-bound, schema-on-read capabilities

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

RESTful HTTP API

proprietary protocol using JSON

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

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

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

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

JavaScript

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

implicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.

Source-replica replication

none

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

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

optimistic locking

Document is locked during a transaction

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

Access rights based on private key authentication or shared access signatures

simple password-based access control

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