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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. Quasardb vs. Sadas Engine vs. TerarkDB

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Name

Description

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

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

Primary database model

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Score	1.97
Rank	#126	Overall
	#59	Relational DBMS

Score	0.14
Rank	#332	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#158	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Website

phoenix.apache.org

quasar.ai

www.sadasengine.com

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

Technical documentation

phoenix.apache.org

doc.quasar.ai/master

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

quasardb

SADAS s.r.l.

ByteDance, originally Terark

Initial release

2014

2009

2006

2016

Current release

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

3.14.1, January 2024

8.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

commercial

free trial version available

commercial

restricted open source version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

late-bound, schema-on-read capabilities

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

integer and binary

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

with tags

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

consistent hashing

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using LevelDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Transient mode

yes

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancy

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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