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DBMS > Apache Impala vs. BigObject vs. Cachelot.io vs. EJDB vs. Firebird

System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. BigObject vs. Cachelot.io vs. EJDB vs. Firebird

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NameApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonCachelot.io  Xexclude from comparisonEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for HadoopAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesIn-memory caching systemEmbeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)Firebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBase
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedKey-value storeDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
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Score12.45
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score0.19
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#388  Overall
#62  Key-value stores
Score0.31
Rank#296  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score20.50
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Websiteimpala.apache.orgbigobject.iocachelot.iogithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbwww.firebirdsql.org
Technical documentationimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmldocs.bigobject.iogithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mdwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manuals
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaBigObject, Inc.SoftmotionsFirebird Foundation
Initial release20132015201520122000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase
Current release4.1.0, June 20225.0.0, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoSimplified BSD LicenseOpen Source infoGPLv2Open Source infoInitial Developer's Public License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C++CC and C++
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
server-lessAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnonoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Memcached protocolin-process shared libraryADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceLuanonoPSQL
Triggersnonononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factornonenonenoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoquery execution via MapReducenononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistencynonenone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesnono infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possibleyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonononoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyes infoRead/Write Lockingyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writers
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesnoyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and KerberosnononoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept

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