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System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. Bangdb vs. BoltDB vs. dBASE vs. Heroic

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NameApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisondBASE  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for HadoopConverged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphAn embedded key-value store for Go.dBase 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.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Key-value storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeSpatial DBMS
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Score13.77
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#347  Overall
#47  Document stores
#34  Graph DBMS
#31  Time Series DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score10.34
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Websiteimpala.apache.orgbangdb.comgithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.dbase.comgithub.com/­spotify/­heroic
Technical documentationimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmldocs.bangdb.comwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasespotify.github.io/­heroic
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaSachin Sinha, BangDBAsthon TateSpotify
Initial release20132012201319792014
Current release4.1.0, June 2022BangDB 2.0, October 2021dBASE 2019, 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoBSD 3Open Source infoMIT LicensecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C, C++GoJava
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
DOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsnoyesyes
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 indexesyesyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialnoyesyes infovia Elasticsearch
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL like support with command line toolnonono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
none infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBCC
C#
C++
Java
Python
GodBase proprietary IDE
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reducenonono infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.no
Triggersnoyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)nonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmnonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)nonenoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoquery execution via MapReducenononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglynoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDyesno infonot for dBase internal data, but IDE does support transactions when accessing external DBMSno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, optimistic concurrency controlyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes, run db with in-memory only modenono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and Kerberosyes (enterprise version only)noAccess rights for users and roles

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