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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. OpenSearch vs. SAP HANA vs. Valentina Server

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NameApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft SQL Server  Xexclude from comparisonOpenSearch  Xexclude from comparisonSAP HANA  Xexclude from comparisonValentina Server  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseMicrosofts flagship relational DBMSA distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache LuceneIn-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud serviceObject-relational database and reports server
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS infowith SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.97
Rank#126  Overall
#59  Relational DBMS
Score824.29
Rank#3  Overall
#3  Relational DBMS
Score16.36
Rank#37  Overall
#4  Search engines
Score44.69
Rank#22  Overall
#16  Relational DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#327  Overall
#145  Relational DBMS
Websitephoenix.apache.orgwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­sql-servergithub.com/­opensearch-project
opensearch.org
www.sap.com/­products/­hana.htmlwww.valentina-db.net
Technical documentationphoenix.apache.orglearn.microsoft.com/­en-US/­sql/­sql-serveropensearch.org/­docs/­latesthelp.sap.com/­hanavalentina-db.com/­docs/­dokuwiki/­v5/­doku.php
DeveloperApache Software FoundationMicrosoftAmazon Web ServicesSAPParadigma Software
Initial release20141989202120101999
Current release5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 2019SQL Server 2022, November 20222.5.0, January 20232.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 20235.7.5
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial inforestricted free version is availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono infoalso available as a cloud based serviceno
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Implementation languageJavaC++Java
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows
Linux
Windows
All OS with a Java VMAppliance or cloud-serviceLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesyesschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentyesyes
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesSQL-like query languageyesyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBCADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBC
ODBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby infoElasticsearch client
.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsTransact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) JavayesSQLScript, Ryes
Triggersnoyesyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingtables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federationShardingyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Editionyesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsHadoop integrationnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, allImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.yesyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancyfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
More information provided by the system vendor
Apache PhoenixMicrosoft SQL ServerOpenSearchSAP HANAValentina Server
Specific characteristicsOpenSearch is a highly scalable and extensible open-source software suite for search,...
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Competitive advantagesDistributed as fully open source under Apache License, Version 2.0 (ALv2), OpenSearch...
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Typical application scenariosThe OpenSearch platform is used across a broad range of search , analytics, and observability...
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Licensing and pricing modelsThe OpenSearch Project offers open source software licensed under Apache License...
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