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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. SpatiaLite vs. Yanza

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NameApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  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 HBaseCloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentSpatial extension of SQLiteTime Series DBMS for IoT Applications
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeSearch engineSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score2.06
Rank#123  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score13.64
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score5.52
Rank#59  Overall
#6  Search engines
Score1.63
Rank#146  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Websitephoenix.apache.orgfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databaseazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchwww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­indexyanza.com
Technical documentationphoenix.apache.orgfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databaselearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchwww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.html
DeveloperApache Software FoundationGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014MicrosoftAlessandro FurieriYanza
Initial release20142012201520082015
Current release5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 2019V15.0.0, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialcommercialOpen Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1commercial infofree version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesyesnono infobut mainly used as a service provided by Yanza
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Implementation languageJavaC++
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows
hostedhostedserver-lessWindows
Data schemeyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnonoyesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBCAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIHTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
any language that supports HTTP calls
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionslimited functionality with using 'rules'nonono
TriggersnoCallbacks are triggered when data changesnoyesyes infoTimer and event based
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsHadoop integrationnononono
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 integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyesnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
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 infousing Azure authenticationnono

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