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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. SwayDB vs. Trafodion vs. YottaDB

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Name

Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

A fast and solid embedded Key-value store

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

using the Octo plugin

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Trend Chart

Score	2.06
Rank	#123	Overall
	#58	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#387	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Score	0.28
Rank	#306	Overall
	#44	Key-value stores

Website

Technical documentation

phoenix.apache.org

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

yottadb.com/resources/documentation

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Simer Plaha

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

YottaDB, LLC

Initial release

2014

2018

2014

2001

Current release

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

2.3.0, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

AGPL 3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Scala

C++, Java

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

Linux

Docker
Linux

Data scheme

yes

late-bound, schema-on-read capabilities

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

by using the Octo plugin

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

PostgreSQL wire protocol

using the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

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

Java
Kotlin
Scala

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

yes, via HBase

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

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

Atomic execution of operations

ACID

optimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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

Users and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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