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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. Firebolt vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. PouchDB

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NameApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonFirebolt  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems IRIS  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseHighly scalable cloud data warehouse and analytics product infoForked from ClickhouseA containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalabilityJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Document store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.06
Rank#123  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score1.73
Rank#140  Overall
#63  Relational DBMS
Score3.54
Rank#84  Overall
#14  Document stores
#10  Key-value stores
#1  Object oriented DBMS
#45  Relational DBMS
Score2.34
Rank#112  Overall
#21  Document stores
Websitephoenix.apache.orgwww.firebolt.iowww.intersystems.com/­products/­intersystems-irispouchdb.com
Technical documentationphoenix.apache.orgdocs.firebolt.iodocs.intersystems.com/­irislatest/­csp/­docbook/­DocBook.UI.Page.clspouchdb.com/­guides
DeveloperApache Software FoundationFirebolt Analytics Inc.InterSystemsApache Software Foundation
Initial release2014202020182012
Current release5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 20192023.3, June 20237.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialcommercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaScript
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows
hostedAIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesyesdepending on used data modelschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesno
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesyesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnoyesView functions in JavaScript
Triggersnonoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
depending on storage layerSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsHadoop integrationnoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancyyesno
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