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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. Spark SQL vs. SWC-DB vs. TigerGraph vs. Transbase

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NameApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  Xexclude from comparisonTigerGraph  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMSA complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-timeA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSWide column storeGraph DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
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Score2.02
Rank#130  Overall
#63  Relational DBMS
Score19.15
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score0.01
Rank#387  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Score1.83
Rank#141  Overall
#13  Graph DBMS
Score0.15
Rank#337  Overall
#147  Relational DBMS
Websitephoenix.apache.orgspark.apache.org/­sqlgithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
www.tigergraph.comwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationphoenix.apache.orgspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.htmldocs.tigergraph.comwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperApache Software FoundationApache Software FoundationAlex KashirinTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release20142014202020171987
Current release5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 20193.5.0 ( 2.13), September 20230.5, April 2021Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL V3commercialcommercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScalaC++C++C and C++
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinuxFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language (GSQL)yes
APIs and other access methodsJDBCJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Thrift
GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
Java
Python
R
Scala
C++C++
Java
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnonoyesyes
Triggersnonononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyes, utilizing Spark CoreSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsHadoop integrationnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infoRelationships in graphsyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.yesnononono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancynoRole-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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