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DBMS > Apache Phoenix vs. etcd vs. GBase vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database

System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. etcd vs. GBase vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database

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NameApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonetcd  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL Azure  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseA distributed reliable key-value storeWidely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.Cloud Firestore is an auto-scaling document database for storing, syncing, and querying data for mobile and web apps. It offers seamless integration with other Firebase and Google Cloud Platform products.Database as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL Server
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.97
Rank#126  Overall
#59  Relational DBMS
Score7.25
Rank#54  Overall
#5  Key-value stores
Score1.07
Rank#185  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score7.85
Rank#51  Overall
#8  Document stores
Score77.99
Rank#16  Overall
#11  Relational DBMS
Websitephoenix.apache.orgetcd.io
github.com/­etcd-io/­etcd
www.gbase.cnfirebase.google.com/­products/­firestoreazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­products/­azure-sql/­database
Technical documentationphoenix.apache.orgetcd.io/­docs
github.com/­etcd-io/­etcd/­tree/­master/­Documentation
firebase.google.com/­docs/­firestoredocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­azure-sql
DeveloperApache Software FoundationGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.GoogleMicrosoft
Initial release2014200420172010
Current release5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 20193.4, August 2019GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8cV12
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaGoC, Java, PythonC++
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
Windows infoexperimental
Linuxhostedhosted
Data schemeyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesyes
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.nonoyesnoyes
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoStandard with numerous extensionsnoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBCgRPC
JSON over HTTP
ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
Android
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Tcl
C#Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnouser defined functionsyes, Firebase Rules & Cloud FunctionsTransact SQL
Triggersnoyes, watching key changesyesyes, with Cloud Functionsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Using Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.yesMulti-source replicationyes, with always 3 replicas available
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsHadoop integrationnoUsing Cloud Dataflowno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDyesACID
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.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancynoyesAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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