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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. SAP IQ vs. SQream DB vs. TiDB vs. Vitess

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NameApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQ  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparisonTiDB  Xexclude from comparisonVitess  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseColumnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analyticsa GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloadsTiDB is an open source distributed SQL database that supports Hybrid Transactional/Analytical Processing (HTAP) workloads. It is MySQL compatible and features horizontal scalability, strong consistency, and high availability.Scalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infocolumn-orientedRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.06
Rank#123  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score2.64
Rank#108  Overall
#52  Relational DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#224  Overall
#103  Relational DBMS
Score4.25
Rank#74  Overall
#40  Relational DBMS
Score0.88
Rank#203  Overall
#95  Relational DBMS
Websitephoenix.apache.orgwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-iq-big-data-management.htmlsqream.compingcap.comvitess.io
Technical documentationphoenix.apache.orghelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_IQdocs.sqream.comdocs.pingcap.com/­tidb/­stablevitess.io/­docs
DeveloperApache Software FoundationSAP, formerly SybaseSQream TechnologiesPingCAP, Inc.The Linux Foundation, PlanetScale
Initial release20141994201720162013
Current release5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 201916.1 SPS04, April 20192022.1.6, December 20228.1.0, May 202415.0.2, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, ScalaGo, RustGo
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinuxDocker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesyesyes
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 indexesyesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesyesyesyes infowith proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsJDBCADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
GORM
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
SQLAlchemy
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyesuser defined functions in Pythonnoyes infoproprietary syntax
Triggersnoyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingshared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexerhorizontal and vertical partitioninghorizontal partitioning (by key range)Sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
SAP/Sybase Replication ServernoneUsing Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsHadoop integrationHadoop integrationnoyes infowith TiSpark Connectorno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyes infofull support since version 6.6yes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACIDACID at shard level
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engine
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.yesnonoyes
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-standardFine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles
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Apache PhoenixSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQSQream DBTiDBVitess
Specific characteristicsTiDB is an advanced open-source, distributed SQL database for modern application...
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Competitive advantages- HORIZONTAL SCALING : TiDB grants total transparency into your data workloads without...
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Typical application scenariosTiDB is ideal for transactional applications that require extreme scalability and...
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Key customersBlock, Pinterest, Catalyst, Bolt, Flipkart, Capcom, Shopee (E-commerce), JD Cloud...
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Market metrics34K+ GitHub stars 5K+ members in TiDB Community Slack 1K+ community contributors...
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Licensing and pricing modelsTiDB Community : Free open source software (Apache 2.0) TiDB Self-Hosted : Enterprise...
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