DBMS > Apache Phoenix vs. MySQL vs. SWC-DB vs. TigerGraph vs. Yanza

System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. MySQL vs. SWC-DB vs. TigerGraph vs. Yanza

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Name

Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

Widely used open source RDBMS

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

A complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time

Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Wide column store

Graph DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	2.02
Rank	#130	Overall
	#63	Relational DBMS

Score	1087.72
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#387	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Score	1.83
Rank	#141	Overall
	#13	Graph DBMS

Website

phoenix.apache.org

www.mysql.com

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

www.tigergraph.com

yanza.com

Technical documentation

phoenix.apache.org

dev.mysql.com/doc

docs.tigergraph.com

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Alex Kashirin

Yanza

Initial release

2014

1995

2020

2017

2015

Current release

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

8.3.0, January 2024

0.5, April 2021

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 V3

commercial

free version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

but mainly used as a service provided by Yanza

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Windows

Data scheme

yes

late-bound, schema-on-read capabilities

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like query language

SQL-like query language (GSQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API

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++

C++
Java

any language that supports HTTP calls

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

proprietary syntax

yes

Triggers

yes

Timer and event based

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Relationships in graphs

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

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

Role-based access control

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