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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. GeoMesa vs. Quasardb

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NameApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseCloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.Distributed, high-performance timeseries database
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.90
Rank#125  Overall
#59  Relational DBMS
Score13.60
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score0.78
Rank#214  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#332  Overall
#28  Time Series DBMS
Websitephoenix.apache.orgfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.geomesa.orgquasar.ai
Technical documentationphoenix.apache.orgfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasewww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmldoc.quasar.ai/­master
DeveloperApache Software FoundationGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014CCRi and othersquasardb
Initial release2014201220142009
Current release5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 20195.0.1, July 20243.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaScalaC++
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows
hostedBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infointeger and binary
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 infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnonoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBCAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionslimited functionality with using 'rules'nono
TriggersnoCallbacks are triggered when data changesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingdepending on storage layerSharding infoconsistent hashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
depending on storage layerSource-replica replication with selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsHadoop integrationnoyeswith Hadoop integration
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
depending on storage layerImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyesnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoby using LevelDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesdepending on storage layeryes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancyyes, based on authentication and database rulesyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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