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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. Sphinx vs. TinkerGraph vs. Trafodion vs. Yanza

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NameApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparisonYanza  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 APITransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMSTime Series DBMS for IoT Applications
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSearch engineGraph DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
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Score1.97
Rank#126  Overall
#59  Relational DBMS
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.08
Rank#348  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
Websitephoenix.apache.orgsphinxsearch.comtinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlintrafodion.apache.orgyanza.com
Technical documentationphoenix.apache.orgsphinxsearch.com/­docstrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperApache Software FoundationSphinx Technologies Inc.Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HPYanza
Initial release20142001200920142015
Current release5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 20193.5.1, February 20232.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono infobut mainly used as a service provided by Yanza
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Implementation languageJavaC++JavaC++, Java
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxWindows
Data schemeyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesno
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)noyesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBCProprietary protocolTinkerPop 3ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Groovy
Java
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Netany language that supports HTTP calls
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnonoJava Stored Proceduresno
Triggersnonononoyes infoTimer and event based
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportednoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
nonenoneyes, via HBasenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsHadoop integrationnonoyes infovia user defined functions and HBaseno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infoRelationships in graphsyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesnoyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.optionalyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancynonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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