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System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. FileMaker vs. MySQL vs. openGemini

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

FileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.

Widely used open source RDBMS

An open source distributed Time Series DBMS with high concurrency, high performance, and high scalability

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	10.63
Rank	#40	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

Score	45.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	1029.49
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Website

impala.apache.org

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.mysql.com

www.opengemini.org
github.com/openGemini

Technical documentation

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

dev.mysql.com/doc

docs.opengemini.org/guide

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Huawei and openGemini community

Initial release

2013

1983

1995

2022

Current release

4.1.0, June 2022

19.4.1, November 2021

9.0.0, July 2024

1.1, July 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Integer, Float, Boolean, String

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

A http query request can return the data in XML format

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

via plugins

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

PHP

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles

based on Apache Sentry and Kerberos

simple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory services

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Administrators and common users accounts

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