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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. Quasardb vs. Sphinx vs. Yanza

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NameApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonYanza  Xexclude from comparison
Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesTime Series DBMS for IoT Applications
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSSearch engineTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.02
Rank#130  Overall
#63  Relational DBMS
Score0.19
Rank#327  Overall
#30  Time Series DBMS
Score6.03
Rank#60  Overall
#6  Search engines
Websitephoenix.apache.orgquasar.aisphinxsearch.comyanza.com
Technical documentationphoenix.apache.orgdoc.quasar.ai/­mastersphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperApache Software FoundationquasardbSphinx Technologies Inc.Yanza
Initial release2014200920012015
Current release5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 20193.14.1, January 20243.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availablecommercial infofree version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono infobut mainly used as a service provided by Yanza
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Implementation languageJavaC++C++
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Windows
Data schemeyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infointeger and binarynono
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyes infowith tagsyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)no
APIs and other access methodsJDBCHTTP APIProprietary protocolHTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
any language that supports HTTP calls
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnonono
Triggersnononoyes infoTimer and event based
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoconsistent hashingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportednone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replication with selectable replication factornonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsHadoop integrationwith Hadoop integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoby using LevelDByes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancyCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailnono

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