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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Sequoiadb vs. STSdb

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Name	Apache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparison	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparison	Sequoiadb  Xexclude from comparison	STSdb  Xexclude from comparison
		SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
Description	A scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBase	Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures	NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL	Key-Value Store with special method for indexing optimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database model	Relational DBMS	Relational DBMS	Document store Relational DBMS	Key-value store
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 2.06 Rank #123   Overall #58   Relational DBMS		Score 0.50 Rank #258   Overall #41   Document stores #120   Relational DBMS	Score 0.10 Rank #357   Overall #51   Key-value stores
Website	phoenix.apache.org	www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html	www.sequoiadb.com	github.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentation	phoenix.apache.org		www.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=index
Developer	Apache Software Foundation	Sybase, SAP	Sequoiadb Ltd.	STS Soft SC
Initial release	2014	1993	2013	2011
Current release	5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 2019			4.0.8, September 2015
License Commercial or Open Source	Open Source Apache Version 2.0	commercial	Open Source Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2	Open Source GPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	no	no	no	no
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Implementation language	Java		C++	C#
Server operating systems	Linux Unix Windows	Linux Windows	Linux	Windows
Data scheme	yes late-bound, schema-on-read capabilities	yes	schema-free	yes
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	yes	yes	yes oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex	yes primitive types and user defined types (classes)
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.	no	no	no
Secondary indexes	yes	yes	yes	no
SQL Support of SQL	yes	yes	SQL-like query language	no
APIs and other access methods	JDBC	.NET Client API ADO.NET JDBC ODBC OLE DB	proprietary protocol using JSON	.NET Client API
Supported programming languages	C C# C++ Go Groovy Java PHP Python Scala	Delphi Perl PHP	.Net C++ Java PHP Python	C# Java
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	user defined functions	yes	JavaScript	no
Triggers	no	yes	no	no
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	Sharding	none	Sharding	none
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	Multi-source replication Source-replica replication	Multi-source replication CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts Source-replica replication	Source-replica replication	none
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	Hadoop integration	no	no	no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system	Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency	Immediate Consistency	Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	no	yes	no	no
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	ACID	ACID	Document is locked during a transaction	no
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes	yes	yes	yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.	yes	no caching of (temporary) tables can be configured	no
User concepts Access control	Access Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancy	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard	simple password-based access control	no
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	Apache Phoenix	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS	Sequoiadb	STSdb
DB-Engines blog posts	Cloudera's HBase PaaS offering now supports Complex Transactions 11 August 2021,  Krishna Maheshwari (sponsor)  show all
Recent citations in the news	Supercharge SQL on Your Data in Apache HBase with Apache Phoenix | Amazon Web Services 2 June 2016, AWS Blog Bridge the SQL-NoSQL gap with Apache Phoenix 4 February 2016, InfoWorld Apache Calcite, FreeMarker, Gora, Phoenix, and Solr updated 27 March 2017, SDTimes.com Azure HDInsight Analytics Platform Now Supports Apache Hadoop 3.0 18 April 2019, eWeek Deep dive into Azure HDInsight 4.0 25 September 2018, Microsoft provided by Google News	SAP Announces Q3 2023 Results: Asia Pacific and Japan View 19 October 2023, SAP News provided by Google News

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