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System Properties Comparison Amazon Aurora vs. Apache Impala vs. Firebird vs. Interbase vs. ITTIA

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NameAmazon Aurora  Xexclude from comparisonApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonITTIA  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMySQL and PostgreSQL compatible cloud service by AmazonAnalytic DBMS for HadoopFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseLight-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandEdge Time Series DBMS with Real-Time Stream Processing
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeDocument storeRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score7.91
Rank#50  Overall
#32  Relational DBMS
Score13.77
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score20.82
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score4.61
Rank#72  Overall
#39  Relational DBMS
Score0.39
Rank#273  Overall
#24  Time Series DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­rds/­auroraimpala.apache.orgwww.firebirdsql.orgwww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasewww.ittia.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­AmazonRDS/­latest/­AuroraUserGuide/­CHAP_Aurora.htmlimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmlwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbase
DeveloperAmazonApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaFirebird FoundationEmbarcaderoITTIA L.L.C.
Initial release201520132000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase19842007
Current release4.1.0, June 20225.0.0, January 2024InterBase 2020, December 20198.7
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoInitial Developer's Public Licensecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++C and C++CC and C++
Server operating systemshostedLinuxAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesFixed schema
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesFloat/Blob/Integer/String/Unicode/Date/Time/Timestamp/Interval
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.yesnono infoexport as XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesyesyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesAda
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBCC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
C
C++
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reducePSQLyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languageyes
Triggersyesnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationselectable replication factorSource-replica replicationInterbase Change Viewsyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoquery execution via MapReducenonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACIDyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
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.yesnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and KerberosUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardDatabase file passwords

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