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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. Postgres-XL vs. Realm vs. RisingWave vs. Transbase

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NameApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  Xexclude from comparisonRisingWave  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresA DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core DataA distributed RDBMS for stream processing, wire-compatible with PostgreSQLA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.97
Rank#126  Overall
#59  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#256  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score7.60
Rank#52  Overall
#9  Document stores
Score0.58
Rank#242  Overall
#111  Relational DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#341  Overall
#150  Relational DBMS
Websitephoenix.apache.orgwww.postgres-xl.orgrealm.iowww.risingwave.com/­databasewww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationphoenix.apache.orgwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationrealm.io/­docsdocs.risingwave.com/­docs/­current/­introwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperApache Software FoundationRealm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019RisingWave LabsTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release20142014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB201420221987
Current release5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 201910 R1, October 20181.2, September 2023Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaCRustC and C++
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows
Linux
macOS
Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesStandard SQL-types and JSONyes
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.noyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalitynonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyes infodistributed, parallel query executionnoyesyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBCADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
.Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsuser defined functionsno inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessaryUDFs in Python or Javayes
Triggersnoyesyes infoChange Listenersnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioningnone
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 integrationnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID infoMVCCACIDnoyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes infoIn-Memory realmyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancyfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesUsers and Rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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