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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Sadas Engine

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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.

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.93
Rank	#120	Overall
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Score	13.59
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#159	Relational DBMS

Website

phoenix.apache.org

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

www.sadasengine.com

Technical documentation

phoenix.apache.org

firebase.google.com/docs/database

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Google

acquired by Google 2014

SADAS s.r.l.

Initial release

2014

2012

2006

Current release

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

8.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

free trial version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

hosted

AIX
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

late-bound, schema-on-read capabilities

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

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

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

limited functionality with using 'rules'

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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