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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. GeoMesa vs. SQLite vs. WakandaDB

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Name

Description

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

Cloud-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.

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

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Score	1.90
Rank	#125	Overall
	#59	Relational DBMS

Score	13.60
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	0.78
Rank	#214	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	103.35
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#364	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Website

phoenix.apache.org

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

www.geomesa.org

www.sqlite.org

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

phoenix.apache.org

firebase.google.com/docs/database

www.geomesa.org/documentation/stable/user/index.html

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Google

acquired by Google 2014

CCRi and others

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2014

2012

2014

2000

2012

Current release

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

5.0.1, July 2024

3.46.1 (13 August 2024), August 2024

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Public Domain

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Scala

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

hosted

server-less

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

late-bound, schema-on-read capabilities

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

limited functionality with using 'rules'

yes

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

depending on storage layer

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

depending on storage layer

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

yes

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

depending on storage layer

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

via file-system locks

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

depending on storage layer

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancy

yes, based on authentication and database rules

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

yes

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