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

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

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NameApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparisonVoltDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsCloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS infoUsed for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeDocument storeGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
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Score2.06
Rank#123  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score13.64
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score0.11
Rank#354  Overall
#37  Graph DBMS
#15  Object oriented DBMS
Score1.47
Rank#157  Overall
#73  Relational DBMS
Websitephoenix.apache.orgwww.bigchaindb.comfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasevelocitydb.comwww.voltdb.com
Technical documentationphoenix.apache.orgbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasevelocitydb.com/­UserGuidedocs.voltdb.com
DeveloperApache Software FoundationGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014VelocityDB IncVoltDB Inc.
Initial release20142016201220112010
Current release5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 20197.x11.3, April 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoAGPL v3commercialcommercialOpen Source infoAGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaPythonC#Java, C++
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows
LinuxhostedAny that supports .NETLinux
OS X infofor development
Data schemeyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnononoyes infoonly a subset of SQL 99
APIs and other access methodsJDBCCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
.NetJava API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
.NetC#
C++
Erlang infonot officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionslimited functionality with using 'rules'noJava
TriggersnoCallbacks are triggered when data changesCallbacks are triggered when data changesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factorMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsHadoop integrationnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono infoFOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyesACIDACID infoTransactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes infoData access is serialized by the server
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyes infoSnapshots and command logging
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancyyesyes, based on authentication and database rulesBased on Windows AuthenticationUsers and roles with access to stored procedures

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