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DBMS > Apache Impala vs. EsgynDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. GBase vs. Google Cloud Bigtable

System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. EsgynDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. GBase vs. Google Cloud Bigtable

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NameApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonEsgynDB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Bigtable  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for HadoopEnterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache TrafodionCloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.Google's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSKey-value store
Wide column store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score10.63
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score0.15
Rank#325  Overall
#144  Relational DBMS
Score13.60
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score1.11
Rank#173  Overall
#78  Relational DBMS
Score2.97
Rank#92  Overall
#15  Key-value stores
#8  Wide column stores
Websiteimpala.apache.orgwww.esgyn.cnfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.gbase.cncloud.google.com/­bigtable
Technical documentationimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmlfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasecloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docs
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaEsgynGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014General Data Technology Co., Ltd.Google
Initial release20132015201220042015
Current release4.1.0, June 2022GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialcommercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnoyes
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Implementation languageC++C++, JavaC, Java, Python
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxhostedLinuxhosted
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
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.nononoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesnoStandard with numerous extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBCAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.NetJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
C#C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceJava Stored Procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'user defined functionsno
TriggersnonoCallbacks are triggered when data changesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorMulti-source replication between multi datacentersyesInternal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zones
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoquery execution via MapReduceyesnoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDyesACIDAtomic single-row operations
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.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and Kerberosfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes, based on authentication and database rulesyesAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

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