DBMS > Apache Phoenix vs. BigchainDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Snowflake vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. BigchainDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Snowflake vs. VelocityDB

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Name

Description

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

BigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assets

Cloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

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Score	2.06
Rank	#123	Overall
	#58	Relational DBMS

Score	0.85
Rank	#208	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	13.64
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#354	Overall
	#37	Graph DBMS
	#15	Object oriented DBMS

Website

phoenix.apache.org

www.bigchaindb.com

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

www.snowflake.com

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

phoenix.apache.org

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

firebase.google.com/docs/database

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Snowflake Computing Inc.

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2014

2016

2012

2014

2011

Current release

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

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Python

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

Linux

hosted

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

yes

late-bound, schema-on-read capabilities

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

.Net

Supported programming languages

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

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

limited functionality with using 'rules'

user defined functions

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency

if the client is offline
Immediate Consistency

if the client is online

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

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

yes

yes, based on authentication and database rules

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

Based on Windows Authentication

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