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DBMS > Apache Druid vs. Apache Impala vs. Blueflood vs. Firebird vs. GBase

System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. Apache Impala vs. Blueflood vs. Firebird vs. GBase

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NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataAnalytic DBMS for HadoopScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseWidely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score3.25
Rank#90  Overall
#47  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score12.45
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#346  Overall
#33  Time Series DBMS
Score20.50
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score1.05
Rank#186  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Websitedruid.apache.orgimpala.apache.orgblueflood.iowww.firebirdsql.orgwww.gbase.cn
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmlgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikiwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manuals
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaRackspaceFirebird FoundationGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.
Initial release2012201320132000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase2004
Current release29.0.1, April 20244.1.0, June 20225.0.0, January 2024GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2Open Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoInitial Developer's Public Licensecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++JavaC and C++C, Java, Python
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
LinuxLinux
OS X
AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedyespredefined schemeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoyesStandard with numerous extensions
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP RESTADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBCC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reducenoPSQLuser defined functions
Triggersnononoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedShardingSharding infobased on Cassandranonehorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesselectable replication factorselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraSource-replica replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoquery execution via MapReducenono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyes
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.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and KerberosnoUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptyes

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