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

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Name

Description

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

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Object-relational database and reports server

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.97
Rank	#126	Overall
	#59	Relational DBMS

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.53
Rank	#252	Overall
	#116	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#327	Overall
	#145	Relational DBMS

Website

phoenix.apache.org

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

sql.js.org

www.valentina-db.net

Technical documentation

phoenix.apache.org

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

help.sap.com/hana

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

valentina-db.com/docs/dokuwiki/v5/doku.php

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Microsoft

SAP

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Paradigma Software

Initial release

2014

1989

2010

2012

1999

Current release

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

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

5.7.5

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

Linux
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

late-bound, schema-on-read capabilities

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

JDBC
ODBC

JavaScript API

ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

JavaScript

.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

SQLScript, R

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

yes

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

none

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

except by serializing a db to a file

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

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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