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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Hypertable vs. SQream DB

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NameApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
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.An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as Hadoopa GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeWide column storeRelational DBMS
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Score1.97
Rank#126  Overall
#59  Relational DBMS
Score14.29
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score0.70
Rank#227  Overall
#104  Relational DBMS
Websitephoenix.apache.orgfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasesqream.com
Technical documentationphoenix.apache.orgfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasedocs.sqream.com
DeveloperApache Software FoundationGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Hypertable Inc.SQream Technologies
Initial release2014201220092017
Current release5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 20190.9.8.11, March 20162022.1.6, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaC++C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows
hostedLinux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
Linux
Data schemeyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes, ANSI Standard SQL Types
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.nono
Secondary indexesyesyesrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnonoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBCAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
C++ API
Thrift
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionslimited functionality with using 'rules'nouser defined functions in Python
TriggersnoCallbacks are triggered when data changesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardinghorizontal and vertical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor on file system levelnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsHadoop integrationnoyesno
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
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate 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
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes
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 rulesno

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