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DBMS > Apache Impala vs. Apache Phoenix vs. dBASE vs. Geode vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. Apache Phoenix vs. dBASE vs. Geode vs. SWC-DB

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NameApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisondBASE  Xexclude from comparisonGeode  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for HadoopA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBasedBase was one of the first databases with a development environment on PC's. Its latest version dBase V is still sold as dBase classic, which needs a DOS Emulation. The up-to-date product is dBase plus.Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeWide column store
Secondary database modelsDocument storeTime Series DBMS
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Score12.45
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score2.06
Rank#123  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score9.70
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score1.86
Rank#134  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score0.08
Rank#364  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Websiteimpala.apache.orgphoenix.apache.orgwww.dbase.comgeode.apache.orggithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
Technical documentationimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmlphoenix.apache.orgwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasegeode.apache.org/­docs
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaApache Software FoundationAsthon TateOriginally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.Alex Kashirin
Initial release20132014197920022020
Current release4.1.0, June 20225.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 2019dBASE 2019, 20191.1, February 20170.5, April 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as GemfireOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaJavaC++
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
Unix
Windows
DOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
All OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredLinux
Data schemeyesyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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 indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesnoSQL-like query language (OQL)SQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
JDBCnone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocol
Thrift
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBCC
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
dBase proprietary IDE.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
C++
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceuser defined functionsno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.user defined functionsno
Triggersnononoyes infoCache Event Listenersno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoquery execution via MapReduceHadoop integrationnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDno infonot for dBase internal data, but IDE does support transactions when accessing external DBMSyes, on a single node
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.noyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and KerberosAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancyAccess rights for users and rolesAccess rights per client and object definable

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