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DBMS > Apache Impala vs. EsgynDB vs. Firebird vs. HEAVY.AI vs. OrigoDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. EsgynDB vs. Firebird vs. HEAVY.AI vs. OrigoDB

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NameApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonEsgynDB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for HadoopEnterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache TrafodionFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareA fully ACID in-memory object graph database
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeSpatial DBMS
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Score10.63
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score0.15
Rank#325  Overall
#144  Relational DBMS
Score19.46
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score1.41
Rank#153  Overall
#71  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#54  Document stores
#21  Object oriented DBMS
Websiteimpala.apache.orgwww.esgyn.cnwww.firebirdsql.orggithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
origodb.com
Technical documentationimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmlwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsdocs.heavy.aiorigodb.com/­docs
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaEsgynFirebird FoundationHEAVY.AI, Inc.Robert Friberg et al
Initial release201320152000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase20162009 infounder the name LiveDB
Current release4.1.0, June 20225.0.1, August 20245.10, January 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availableOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C++, JavaC and C++C++ and CUDAC#
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
LinuxLinux
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesUser defined using .NET types and collections
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 infocan be achieved using .NET
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesyesyesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBCAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.NetC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceJava Stored ProceduresPSQLnoyes
Triggersnonoyesnoyes infoDomain Events
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnoneSharding infoRound robinhorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronized
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorMulti-source replication between multi datacentersSource-replica replicationMulti-source replicationSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoquery execution via MapReduceyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesnodepending on model
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoWrite ahead log
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and Kerberosfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole based authorization

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