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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. SAP IQ vs. Spark SQL vs. XTDB

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Name

Description

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

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Relational DBMS

Document store

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Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
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Score	18.96
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#343	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

phoenix.apache.org

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

spark.apache.org/sql

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

phoenix.apache.org

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-programming-guide.html

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

SAP, formerly Sybase

Apache Software Foundation

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2014

1994

2014

2019

Current release

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

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Scala

Clojure

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

yes

late-bound, schema-on-read capabilities

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

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

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java
Python
R
Scala

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

yes, utilizing Spark Core

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

none

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

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

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