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System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. EJDB vs. InfluxDB vs. Interbase

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NameApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for HadoopEmbeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)DBMS for storing time series, events and metricsLight-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from Borland
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeSpatial DBMS infowith GEO package
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score13.77
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score0.27
Rank#297  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score25.83
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score4.61
Rank#72  Overall
#39  Relational DBMS
Websiteimpala.apache.orggithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewwww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbase
Technical documentationimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmlgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mddocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbase
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaSoftmotionsEmbarcadero
Initial release2013201220131984
Current release4.1.0, June 20222.7.6, April 2024InterBase 2020, December 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoGPLv2Open Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++CGoC
Server operating systemsLinuxserver-lessLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idNumeric data and Stringsyes
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 infoexport as XML data possible
Secondary indexesyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
in-process shared libraryHTTP API
JSON over UDP
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBCActionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reducenonoyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger language
Triggersnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding infoin enterprise version onlynone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factornoneselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlyInterbase Change Views
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoquery execution via MapReducenonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possiblenoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/Write Lockingyesyes infoMultiversion concurreny control
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoDepending on used storage engineyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and Kerberosnosimple rights management via user accountsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
More information provided by the system vendor
Apache ImpalaEJDBInfluxDBInterbase
Specific characteristicsInfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
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Competitive advantagesTime to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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Typical application scenariosIoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
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Key customersInfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Market metricsFastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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