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DBMS > Amazon Aurora vs. Apache Phoenix vs. EXASOL vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Interbase

System Properties Comparison Amazon Aurora vs. Apache Phoenix vs. EXASOL vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Interbase

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NameAmazon Aurora  Xexclude from comparisonApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMySQL and PostgreSQL compatible cloud service by AmazonA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.Cloud Firestore is an auto-scaling document database for storing, syncing, and querying data for mobile and web apps. It offers seamless integration with other Firebase and Google Cloud Platform products.Light-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from Borland
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score7.84
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score1.90
Rank#125  Overall
#59  Relational DBMS
Score1.66
Rank#138  Overall
#64  Relational DBMS
Score6.63
Rank#54  Overall
#9  Document stores
Score3.78
Rank#77  Overall
#41  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­rds/­auroraphoenix.apache.orgwww.exasol.comfirebase.google.com/­products/­firestorewww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbase
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­AmazonRDS/­latest/­AuroraUserGuide/­CHAP_Aurora.htmlphoenix.apache.orgwww.exasol.com/­resourcesfirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestoredocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbase
DeveloperAmazonApache Software FoundationExasolGoogleEmbarcadero
Initial release20152014200020171984
Current release5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 2019InterBase 2020, December 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaC
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Unix
Windows
hostedAndroid
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.yesnononono infoexport as XML data possible
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesyesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
Android
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesAda
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
C
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
Java
Lua
Python
R
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsuser defined functionsyes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functionsyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger language
Triggersyesnoyesyes, with Cloud Functionsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningShardingShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replicationInterbase Change Views
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoHadoop integrationyes infoHadoop integrationUsing Cloud Dataflowno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDyesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes infoMultiversion concurreny control
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.yesyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancyAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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