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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. Sphinx vs. Yanza vs. YDB

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NameApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonYanza  Xexclude from comparisonYDB  Xexclude from comparison
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 databasesTime Series DBMS for IoT ApplicationsA distributed fault-tolerant database service, with high availability, scalability, immediate consistency and ACID transactions and providing an Amazon DynamoDB compatible API
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSearch engineTime Series DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
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Score1.97
Rank#126  Overall
#59  Relational DBMS
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.35
Rank#278  Overall
#43  Document stores
#127  Relational DBMS
Websitephoenix.apache.orgsphinxsearch.comyanza.comgithub.com/­ydb-platform/­ydb
ydb.tech
Technical documentationphoenix.apache.orgsphinxsearch.com/­docsydb.tech/­en/­docs
DeveloperApache Software FoundationSphinx Technologies Inc.YanzaYandex
Initial release2014200120152019
Current release5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 20193.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availablecommercial infofree version availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0; commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono infobut mainly used as a service provided by Yanzano
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Implementation languageJavaC++
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
WindowsLinux
Data schemeyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesyesschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnonoyes
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 indexesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)noSQL-like query language (YQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBCProprietary protocolHTTP APIRESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
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
any language that supports HTTP callsGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnonono
Triggersnonoyes infoTimer and event based
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportednoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
nonenoneActive-passive shard replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsHadoop integrationnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancynonoAccess rights defined for Yandex Cloud users

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