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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. mSQL vs. Pinecone vs. Transbase

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NameApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBasemSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSA managed, cloud-native vector databaseA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSVector DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score2.06
Rank#123  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score1.27
Rank#169  Overall
#76  Relational DBMS
Score3.23
Rank#92  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#334  Overall
#148  Relational DBMS
Websitephoenix.apache.orghughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlwww.pinecone.iowww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationphoenix.apache.orgdocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperApache Software FoundationHughes TechnologiesPinecone Systems, IncTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release2014199420191987
Current release5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 20194.4, October 2021Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infofree licenses can be providedcommercialcommercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaCC and C++
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
hostedFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesString, Number, Booleanyes
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 indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersnoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBCJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
PythonC
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnoyes
Triggersnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsHadoop integrationnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesnoyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
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-tenancynofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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