It's about three times as dense and hard as Hard Maple.
Uh, actually, it's almost exactly TWO times as hard, by the Janka scale, not 3 times as hard
http://www.hobbithouseinc.com/personal/woodpics/_jankaCOMMON.htm
Still, a reasonably hard wood.
I make segmented bowls. When I first started, I would tighten the clamps WAY too hard and I had a few joint failures due to not enough glue. The pieces being glued together were quite hard exotics and I had made the surface smooth, so most of the glue squeezed out.
After I realized my mistake, I refrained from over-smoothing the surface and over-tightening the clamps and did not have the problem again.
Another thing to watch out for is over-tightening the clamps. That can cause (1) misalignment and (2) squeezing out too much of the glue resulting in a poor joint.
Your pic is too out of focus to really tell much of anything. Actual wood is possible, but so is a manufactured product. Can you use a chisel or knife to clean up the surface of a small area and get a well focused pic?
You just need to clamp some scrap pieces to one leg of each table saw, then put the workpiece on those and clamp one end so it doesn't fall over ... voila; whatever height you want. If the top of the working surface gets below the top of the sawhorse, you'd need to put a spacer between the workpiece and the sawhorse to give clearance to the work surface.
both woods have a considerable variety of color. If you have the wood in front of you, you need to decide whether they go well together or not rather than asking us to judge, sight-unseen.
Their expansion characteristics are quite close to each other so that won't be a factor.