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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Quasardb vs. Yanza vs. YottaDB

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NameApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonYanza  Xexclude from comparisonYottaDB  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.Distributed, high-performance timeseries databaseTime Series DBMS for IoT ApplicationsA fast and solid embedded Key-value store
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS infousing the Octo plugin
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.97
Rank#126  Overall
#59  Relational DBMS
Score14.29
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score0.20
Rank#317  Overall
#47  Key-value stores
Websitephoenix.apache.orgfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasequasar.aiyanza.comyottadb.com
Technical documentationphoenix.apache.orgfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasedoc.quasar.ai/­masteryottadb.com/­resources/­documentation
DeveloperApache Software FoundationGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014quasardbYanzaYottaDB, LLC
Initial release20142012200920152001
Current release5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 20193.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialcommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensescommercial infofree version availableOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono infobut mainly used as a service provided by Yanzano
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Implementation languageJavaC++C
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows
hostedBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
WindowsDocker
Linux
Data schemeyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infointeger and binarynono
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 indexesyesyesyes infowith tagsnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoSQL-like query languagenoby using the Octo plugin
APIs and other access methodsJDBCAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP APIHTTP APIPostgreSQL wire protocol infousing the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol
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
any language that supports HTTP callsC
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionslimited functionality with using 'rules'nono
TriggersnoCallbacks are triggered when data changesnoyes infoTimer and event based
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoconsistent hashingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replication with selectable replication factornoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsHadoop integrationnowith Hadoop integrationnono
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 dataACIDyesACIDnooptimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby using LevelDByesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoTransient modeyes
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 rulesCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailnoUsers and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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