DBMS > Apache Phoenix vs. MySQL vs. Sphinx vs. SQL.JS vs. TiDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. MySQL vs. Sphinx vs. SQL.JS vs. TiDB

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Name

Description

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

Widely used open source RDBMS

Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

TiDB is an open source distributed SQL database that supports Hybrid Transactional/Analytical Processing (HTAP) workloads. It is MySQL compatible and features horizontal scalability, strong consistency, and high availability.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store

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Score	1.90
Rank	#125	Overall
	#59	Relational DBMS

Score	1029.49
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	5.97
Rank	#56	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Score	0.53
Rank	#246	Overall
	#115	Relational DBMS

Score	4.09
Rank	#72	Overall
	#38	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

phoenix.apache.org

dev.mysql.com/doc

sphinxsearch.com/docs

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

docs.pingcap.com/tidb/stable

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

PingCAP, Inc.

Initial release

2014

1995

2001

2012

2016

Current release

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

9.0.0, July 2024

3.5.1, February 2023

8.2.0, July 2024

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, commercial licence available

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++

JavaScript

Go, Rust

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

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

Linux

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

full-text index on all search fields

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Proprietary protocol

JavaScript API

GORM
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
SQLAlchemy

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

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

JavaScript

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

none

horizontal partitioning (by key range)

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

Using Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

yes

with TiSpark Connector

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

full support since version 6.6

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

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

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

Block, Pinterest, Catalyst, Bolt, Flipkart, Capcom, Shopee (E-commerce), JD Cloud...
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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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