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DBMS > Apache Phoenix vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. LeanXcale vs. LokiJS

System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. LeanXcale vs. LokiJS

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NameApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonLeanXcale  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  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.Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.A highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilitiesIn-memory JavaScript DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Document store
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Score1.97
Rank#126  Overall
#59  Relational DBMS
Score14.29
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#379  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#291  Overall
#41  Key-value stores
#132  Relational DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Websitephoenix.apache.orgfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.hawkular.orgwww.leanxcale.comgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJS
Technical documentationphoenix.apache.orgfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasewww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidetechfort.github.io/­LokiJS
DeveloperApache Software FoundationGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Community supported by Red HatLeanXcale
Initial release20142012201420152014
Current release5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaJavaJavaScript
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows
hostedLinux
OS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesno
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 indexesyesyesnoyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnonoyes infothrough Apache Derbyno
APIs and other access methodsJDBCAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP RESTJDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
Go
Java
Python
Ruby
C
Java
Scala
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionslimited functionality with using 'rules'noView functions in JavaScript
TriggersnoCallbacks are triggered when data changesyes infovia Hawkular Alertingyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infobased on Cassandranone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor infobased on Cassandranone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsHadoop integrationnononoyes
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
Eventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyesnoACIDno infoatomic operations within a single collection possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesyes
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 rulesnono

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