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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. Elasticsearch vs. Firebird vs. Quasardb vs. TigerGraph

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NameApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonTigerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseA distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene infoElasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metricFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseA complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
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Score1.97
Rank#126  Overall
#59  Relational DBMS
Score135.35
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score20.82
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score1.83
Rank#139  Overall
#13  Graph DBMS
Websitephoenix.apache.orgwww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchwww.firebirdsql.orgquasar.aiwww.tigergraph.com
Technical documentationphoenix.apache.orgwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmlwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsdoc.quasar.ai/­masterdocs.tigergraph.com
DeveloperApache Software FoundationElasticFirebird Foundationquasardb
Initial release201420102000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase20092017
Current release5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 20198.6, January 20235.0.0, January 20243.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoElastic LicenseOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public Licensecommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensescommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC and C++C++C++
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows
All OS with a Java VMAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infointeger and binaryyes
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 indexesyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyesyes infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query languageyesSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language (GSQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBCJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
HTTP APIGSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyesPSQLnoyes
Triggersnoyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnoneSharding infoconsistent hashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication with selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsHadoop integrationES-Hadoop Connectornowith Hadoop integrationyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, allImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnoyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoby using LevelDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesMemcached and Redis integrationyes infoTransient modeno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancyUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailRole-based access control

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