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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. MySQL vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. Trino vs. YugabyteDB

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Name

Description

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

Widely used open source RDBMS

A drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.

Fast distributed SQL query engine for big data analytics. Forked from Presto and originally named PrestoSQL

High-performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale applications. Wire and feature compatible with PostgreSQL.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Wide column store

Document store
Wide column store

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Score	2.06
Rank	#123	Overall
	#58	Relational DBMS

Score	1061.34
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	0.60
Rank	#246	Overall
	#39	Document stores

Score	4.99
Rank	#65	Overall
	#36	Relational DBMS

Score	2.63
Rank	#109	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Website

phoenix.apache.org

www.mysql.com

www.percona.com/mongodb/software/percona-server-for-mongodb

trino.io

www.yugabyte.com

Technical documentation

phoenix.apache.org

dev.mysql.com/doc

docs.percona.com/percona-distribution-for-mongodb

trino.io/broadcast
trino.io/docs/current

docs.yugabyte.com
github.com/yugabyte/yugabyte-db

Social network pages

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Percona

Trino Software Foundation

Yugabyte Inc.

Initial release

2014

1995

2015

2012

2020 rebranded from PrestoSQL

2017

Current release

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

8.4.0, April 2024

3.4.10-2.10, November 2017

2.19, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

GPL Version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

C++

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Linux
macOS

for devlopment

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

yes

late-bound, schema-on-read capabilities

yes

schema-free

yes

depending on used data model

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

depending on connected data-source

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

yes, PostgreSQL compatible

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

proprietary protocol using JSON

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Trino CLI

JDBC
YCQL, an SQL-based flexible-schema API with its roots in Cassandra Query Language
YSQL - a fully relational SQL API that is wire compatible with the SQL language in PostgreSQL

Supported programming languages

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

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

proprietary syntax

JavaScript

yes, depending on connected data-source

yes

sql, plpgsql, C

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Sharding

depending on connected data-source

Hash and Range Sharding, row-level geo-partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

depending on connected data-source

Based on Raft distributed consensus protocol, minimum 3 replicas for continuous availability

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

depending on connected data-source

Strong consistency on writes and tunable consistency on reads

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

depending on connected data-source

Distributed ACID with Serializable & Snapshot Isolation. Inspired by Google Spanner architecture.

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

depending on connected data-source

yes

based on RocksDB

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

via In-Memory Engine

User concepts

Access control

Access Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancy

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Access rights for users and roles

SQL standard access control

yes

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Key customers

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