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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. MonetDB vs. SQL.JS

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Name

Description

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

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.97
Rank	#126	Overall
	#59	Relational DBMS

Score	1.72
Rank	#145	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Score	0.53
Rank	#252	Overall
	#116	Relational DBMS

Website

phoenix.apache.org

www.monetdb.org

Technical documentation

phoenix.apache.org

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

MonetDB BV

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Initial release

2014

2004

2012

Current release

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

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

no

no

no

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Implementation language

Java

C

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

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

Data scheme

yes

late-bound, schema-on-read capabilities

yes

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes

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.

no

no

Secondary indexes

yes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

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

C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes, in SQL, C, R

no

Triggers

no

yes

no

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Sharding via remote tables

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

no

no

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

no

yes

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

ACID

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes

no

except by serializing a db to a file

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

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

no

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