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DBMS > Apache Phoenix vs. Firebird vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. Spark SQL vs. SurrealDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. Firebird vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. Spark SQL vs. SurrealDB

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NameApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonPercona Server for MongoDB  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseA drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSDocument store
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Score1.97
Rank#126  Overall
#59  Relational DBMS
Score20.82
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score0.52
Rank#254  Overall
#39  Document stores
Score18.96
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score0.86
Rank#203  Overall
#34  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
Websitephoenix.apache.orgwww.firebirdsql.orgwww.percona.com/­mongodb/­software/­percona-server-for-mongodbspark.apache.org/­sqlsurrealdb.com
Technical documentationphoenix.apache.orgwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsdocs.percona.com/­percona-distribution-for-mongodbspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.htmlsurrealdb.com/­docs
DeveloperApache Software FoundationFirebird FoundationPerconaApache Software FoundationSurrealDB Ltd
Initial release20142000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase201520142022
Current release5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 20195.0.0, January 20243.4.10-2.10, November 20173.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023v1.5.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infoGPL Version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++C++ScalaRust
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows
AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBCADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
proprietary protocol using JSONJDBC
ODBC
GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk
Java
Python
R
Scala
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsPSQLJavaScriptno
Triggersnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingyes, utilizing Spark Core
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationSource-replica replicationnone
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
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyesyes
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.yesyes infovia In-Memory Engineno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancyUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptAccess rights for users and rolesnoyes, based on authentication and database rules

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