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DBMS > Apache Impala vs. FatDB vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Informix vs. OpenTSDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. FatDB vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Informix vs. OpenTSDB

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NameApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonFatDB  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparisonInformix  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparison
FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for HadoopA .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.Cloud Firestore is an auto-scaling document database for storing, syncing, and querying data for mobile and web apps. It offers seamless integration with other Firebase and Google Cloud Platform products.A secure embeddable database from IBM, positioned besides IBM Db2 as a relatively low-cost product optimized for OLTP and Internet of Things dataScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Document storeRelational DBMS infoSince Version 12.10 support for JSON/BSON datatypes compatible with MongoDBTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS infowith Informix TimeSeries Extension
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score12.45
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score7.36
Rank#53  Overall
#9  Document stores
Score17.12
Rank#34  Overall
#21  Relational DBMS
Score1.68
Rank#142  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Websiteimpala.apache.orgfirebase.google.com/­products/­firestorewww.ibm.com/­products/­informixopentsdb.net
Technical documentationimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmlfirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestoreinformix.hcldoc.com
www.ibm.com/­support/­knowledgecenter/­SSGU8G/­welcomeIfxServers.html
opentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.html
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaFatCloudGoogleIBM, HCL Technologies infoEffective May 1st, 2017, HCL took on development, technical support, and product management teams, and works jointly with IBM on product strategy, marketing, and sales.currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors
Initial release20132012201719842011
Current release4.1.0, June 202214.10.FC5, November 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialcommercialcommercial infofree developer edition availableOpen Source infoLGPL
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageC++C#C, C++ and JavaJava
Server operating systemsLinuxWindowshostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infoSince Version 12.10 support for JSON/BSON datatypesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tags
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 indexesyesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsno infoVia inetgration in SQL Servernoyesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings
Android
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
JSON API infoMongoDB compatible
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
Telnet API
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBCC#Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceyes infovia applicationsyes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functionsyesno
Triggersnoyes infovia applicationsyes, with Cloud Functionsyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingShardingSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorselectable replication factorMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoquery execution via MapReduceyesUsing Cloud Dataflownono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infobased on HBase
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoyesACIDno
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.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and Kerberosno infoCan implement custom security layer via applicationsAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.Users with fine-grained authentication, authorization, and auditing controlsno

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