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DBMS > Apache Phoenix vs. jBASE vs. PostGIS vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. jBASE vs. PostGIS vs. Transbase

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NameApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseA robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middlewareSpatial extension of PostgreSQLA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSMultivalue DBMSSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score1.97
Rank#126  Overall
#59  Relational DBMS
Score1.41
Rank#159  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#341  Overall
#150  Relational DBMS
Websitephoenix.apache.orgwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbasepostgis.netwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationphoenix.apache.orgdocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9postgis.net/­documentationwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperApache Software FoundationRocket Software (formerly Zumasys)Transaction Software GmbH
Initial release2014199120051987
Current release5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 20195.73.4.2, February 2024Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0commercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaCC and C++
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows
AIX
Linux
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesoptionalyesyes
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.noyesyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASICyesyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBCJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyesuser defined functionsyes
Triggersnoyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingyes infobased on PostgreSQL
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesyes infobased on PostgreSQLSource-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 ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.yesyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancyAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelyes infobased on PostgreSQLfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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