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DBMS > Apache Phoenix vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Pinecone vs. Sadas Engine

System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Pinecone vs. Sadas Engine

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NameApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparisonSadas Engine  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseCloud 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.A managed, cloud-native vector databaseSADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeVector DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.06
Rank#123  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score7.36
Rank#53  Overall
#9  Document stores
Score3.23
Rank#92  Overall
#2  Vector DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#373  Overall
#157  Relational DBMS
Websitephoenix.apache.orgfirebase.google.com/­products/­firestorewww.pinecone.iowww.sadasengine.com
Technical documentationphoenix.apache.orgfirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestoredocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewwww.sadasengine.com/­en/­sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/­#documentation
DeveloperApache Software FoundationGooglePinecone Systems, IncSADAS s.r.l.
Initial release2014201720192006
Current release5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 20198.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialcommercialcommercial infofree trial version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesyesno
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Implementation languageJavaC++
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows
hostedhostedAIX
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesString, Number, Booleanyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnonoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBCAndroid
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
Python.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functionsno
Triggersnoyes, with Cloud Functionsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsHadoop integrationUsing Cloud Dataflownono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes infomanaged by 'Learn by Usage'
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancyAccess 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 according to SQL-standard

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