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System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. Apache IoTDB vs. Interbase vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. TimesTen

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

An IoT native database with high performance for data management and analysis, deployable on the edge and the cloud and integrated with Hadoop, Spark and Flink

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

The SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMS

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Spatial DBMS

with Boeing's Spatial Query Server

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Trend Chart

Score	12.45
Rank	#40	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

Score	1.31
Rank	#164	Overall
	#14	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.08
Rank	#75	Overall
	#41	Relational DBMS

Score	35.09
Rank	#25	Overall
	#17	Relational DBMS

Score	1.36
Rank	#161	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Website

impala.apache.org

iotdb.apache.org

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-ase.html

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

Technical documentation

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

iotdb.apache.org/UserGuide/Master/QuickStart/QuickStart.html

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_ASE

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

Apache Software Foundation

Embarcadero

SAP, Sybase

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

2013

2018

1984

1987

1998

Current release

4.1.0, June 2022

1.1.0, April 2023

InterBase 2020, December 2019

16.0

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

All OS with a Java VM (>= 1.8)

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

yes

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.

export as XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
Native API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby

C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

Java and Transact-SQL

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by time range) + vertical partitioning (by deviceId)

none

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

selectable replication methods; using Raft/IoTConsensus algorithm to ensure strong/eventual data consistency among multiple replicas

Interbase Change Views

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

Integration with Hadoop and Spark

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Strong Consistency with Raft

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

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 rights for users, groups and roles

based on Apache Sentry and Kerberos

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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