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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. Google BigQuery vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Hive vs. YottaDB

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Name

Description

A scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBase

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

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.

data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on Hadoop

A fast and solid embedded Key-value store

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

using the Octo plugin

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Score	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	7.85
Rank	#51	Overall
	#8	Document stores

Score	61.17
Rank	#18	Overall
	#12	Relational DBMS

Score	0.20
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	#47	Key-value stores

Website

phoenix.apache.org

cloud.google.com/bigquery

firebase.google.com/products/firestore

hive.apache.org

yottadb.com

Technical documentation

phoenix.apache.org

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

firebase.google.com/docs/firestore

cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/Home

yottadb.com/resources/documentation

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Google

Apache Software Foundation

initially developed by Facebook

YottaDB, LLC

Initial release

2014

2010

2017

2012

2001

Current release

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

3.1.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

AGPL 3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Docker
Linux

Data scheme

yes

late-bound, schema-on-read capabilities

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

by using the Octo plugin

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Android
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift

PostgreSQL wire protocol

using the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python

C++
Java
PHP
Python

C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

Triggers

yes, with Cloud Functions

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

selectable replication factor

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

Using Cloud Dataflow

yes

query execution via MapReduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

yes

optimistic locking

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

User concepts

Access control

Access Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancy

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.

Access rights for users, groups and roles

Users and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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