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DBMS > Apache Phoenix vs. Faircom DB vs. Firebird vs. Riak TS vs. Yanza

System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. Faircom DB vs. Firebird vs. Riak TS vs. Yanza

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NameApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonFaircom DB infoformerly c-treeACE  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonRiak TS  Xexclude from comparisonYanza  Xexclude from comparison
Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseNative high-speed multi-model DBMS for relational and key-value store data simultaneously accessible through SQL and NoSQL APIs.Firebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseRiak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KVTime Series DBMS for IoT Applications
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.06
Rank#123  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#304  Overall
#43  Key-value stores
#136  Relational DBMS
Score20.50
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score0.28
Rank#307  Overall
#27  Time Series DBMS
Websitephoenix.apache.orgwww.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-dbwww.firebirdsql.orgyanza.com
Technical documentationphoenix.apache.orgdocs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-7446ae34-a1a7-c843-c894-d5322e395184.htmlwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualswww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­ts/­latest
DeveloperApache Software FoundationFairCom CorporationFirebird FoundationOpen Source, formerly Basho TechnologiesYanza
Initial release201419792000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase20152015
Current release5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 2019V12, November 20205.0.0, January 20243.0.0, September 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infoRestricted, free version availableOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Sourcecommercial infofree version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono infobut mainly used as a service provided by Yanza
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Implementation languageJavaANSI C, C++C and C++Erlang
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows
AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
QNX
SCO
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows infoeasily portable to other OSs
AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesschema free, schema optional, schema required, partial schema,yesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes, ANSI SQL Types, JSON, typed binary structuresyesnono
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 indexesyesyesyesrestrictedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensionsyesyes, limitedno
APIs and other access methodsJDBCADO.NET
Direct SQL
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful MQTT/JSON API
RPC
ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js and browser)
PHP
Python
Visual Basic
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
any language that supports HTTP calls
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyes info.Net, JavaScript, C/C++PSQLErlangno
Triggersnoyesyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksyes infoTimer and event based
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingFile partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding infoCustomizable business rules for table partitioningnoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes, configurable to be parallel or serial, synchronous or asynchronous, uni-directional or bi-directional, ACID-consistent or eventually consistent (with custom conflict resolution).Source-replica replicationselectable replication factornone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsHadoop integrationnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Tunable consistency per server, database, table, and transaction
Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesno infolinks between datasets can be storedno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDtunable from ACID to Eventually ConsistentACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesYes, tunable from durable to delayed durability to in-memoryyesyesyes
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-tenancyFine grained access rights according to SQL-standard with additional protections for filesUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptnono

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