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DBMS > Apache Phoenix vs. MonetDB vs. SAP IQ vs. Sequoiadb vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. MonetDB vs. SAP IQ vs. Sequoiadb vs. Transbase

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NameApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQ  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseA relational database management system that stores data in columnsColumnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analyticsNewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQLA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infocolumn-orientedDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.06
Rank#123  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#141  Overall
#64  Relational DBMS
Score2.64
Rank#108  Overall
#52  Relational DBMS
Score0.50
Rank#258  Overall
#41  Document stores
#120  Relational DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#334  Overall
#148  Relational DBMS
Websitephoenix.apache.orgwww.monetdb.orgwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-iq-big-data-management.htmlwww.sequoiadb.comwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationphoenix.apache.orgwww.monetdb.org/­Documentationhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_IQwww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=indexwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperApache Software FoundationMonetDB BVSAP, formerly SybaseSequoiadb Ltd.Transaction Software GmbH
Initial release20142004199420131987
Current release5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 2019Dec2023 (11.49), December 202316.1 SPS04, April 2019Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0commercialOpen Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2commercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaCC++C and C++
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
LinuxFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regexyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsyesSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBCJDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
proprietary protocol using JSONADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyes, in SQL, C, RyesJavaScriptyes
Triggersnoyesyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding via remote tablesshared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ MultiplexerSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusSAP/Sybase Replication ServerSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsHadoop integrationnoHadoop integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDDocument is locked during a transactionyes
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.yesnonono
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-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple password-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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