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DBMS > Apache Phoenix vs. Bangdb vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. Percona Server for MongoDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. Bangdb vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. Percona Server for MongoDB

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NameApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Spanner  Xexclude from comparisonPercona Server for MongoDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseConverged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphCloud 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.A horizontally scalable, globally consistent, relational database service. It is the externalization of the core Google database that runs the biggest aspects of Google, like Ads and Google Play.A drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document storeRelational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.93
Rank#120  Overall
#59  Relational DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#347  Overall
#48  Document stores
#36  Graph DBMS
#31  Time Series DBMS
Score6.53
Rank#54  Overall
#9  Document stores
Score2.70
Rank#100  Overall
#51  Relational DBMS
Score0.50
Rank#246  Overall
#39  Document stores
Websitephoenix.apache.orgbangdb.comfirebase.google.com/­products/­firestorecloud.google.com/­spannerwww.percona.com/­mongodb/­software/­percona-server-for-mongodb
Technical documentationphoenix.apache.orgdocs.bangdb.comfirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestorecloud.google.com/­spanner/­docsdocs.percona.com/­percona-distribution-for-mongodb
DeveloperApache Software FoundationSachin Sinha, BangDBGoogleGooglePercona
Initial release20142012201720172015
Current release5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 2019BangDB 2.0, October 20213.4.10-2.10, November 2017
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoBSD 3commercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL Version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesyesno
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Implementation languageJavaC, C++C++
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows
LinuxhostedhostedLinux
Data schemeyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsyesyesyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL like support with command line toolnoyes infoQuery statements complying to ANSI 2011no
APIs and other access methodsJDBCProprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Android
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
JDBC infoAt present, JDBC supports read-only queries. No support for DDL or DML statements.
RESTful HTTP API
proprietary protocol using JSON
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnoyes, Firebase Rules & Cloud FunctionsnoJavaScript
Triggersnoyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)yes, with Cloud Functionsnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)Multi-source replicationMulti-source replication with 3 replicas for regional instances.Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsHadoop integrationnoUsing Cloud Dataflowyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflowyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes infoby using interleaved tables, this features focuses more on performance improvements than on referential integrityno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDyesACID infoStrict serializable isolationno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, optimistic concurrency controlyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes, run db with in-memory only modenoyes infovia In-Memory Engine
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancyyes (enterprise version only)Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)Access rights for users and roles

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