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DBMS > Apache Phoenix vs. dBASE vs. Postgres-XL vs. StarRocks vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. dBASE vs. Postgres-XL vs. StarRocks vs. Transbase

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NameApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisondBASE  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonStarRocks  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBasedBase was one of the first databases with a development environment on PC's. Its latest version dBase V is still sold as dBase classic, which needs a DOS Emulation. The up-to-date product is dBase plus.Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresAn open source, high-performance columnar analytical database that enables real-time, multi-dimensional, and highly concurrent data analytics infoForked from Apache DorisA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.97
Rank#126  Overall
#59  Relational DBMS
Score10.34
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#256  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score1.04
Rank#189  Overall
#88  Relational DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#341  Overall
#150  Relational DBMS
Websitephoenix.apache.orgwww.dbase.comwww.postgres-xl.orgwww.starrocks.iowww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationphoenix.apache.orgwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasewww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationdocs.starrocks.io/­en-us/­latest/­introduction/­StarRocks_introwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperApache Software FoundationAsthon TateThe Linux Foundation infosince Feb 2023Transaction Software GmbH
Initial release201419792014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB20201987
Current release5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 2019dBASE 2019, 201910 R1, October 20182.5.3, March 2023Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaCC++, JavaC and C++
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows
DOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
Linux
macOS
LinuxFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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 functionalitynono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyes infodistributed, parallel query executionyesyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBCnone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
dBase proprietary IDE.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
JavaC
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.user defined functionsuser defined functionsyes
Triggersnonoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonehorizontal partitioninghorizontal partitioning (by range and hash)
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 integritynoyesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infonot for dBase internal data, but IDE does support transactions when accessing external DBMSACID infoMVCCnoyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.yesnonono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancyAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole based access control and fine grained access rightsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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