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DBMS > Apache Impala vs. dBASE vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Sequoiadb vs. WakandaDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. dBASE vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Sequoiadb vs. WakandaDB

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NameApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisondBASE  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparisonWakandaDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for HadoopdBase was one of the first databases with a development environment on PC's. Its latest version dBase V is still sold as dBase classic, which needs a DOS Emulation. The up-to-date product is dBase plus.Cloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQLWakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeDocument store
Relational DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score13.77
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score10.34
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score14.29
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score0.45
Rank#261  Overall
#41  Document stores
#122  Relational DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#364  Overall
#17  Object oriented DBMS
Websiteimpala.apache.orgwww.dbase.comfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.sequoiadb.comwakanda.github.io
Technical documentationimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmlwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasefirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasewww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=indexwakanda.github.io/­doc
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaAsthon TateGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Sequoiadb Ltd.Wakanda SAS
Initial release20131979201220132012
Current release4.1.0, June 2022dBASE 2019, 20192.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialcommercialOpen Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2Open Source infoAGPLv3, extended commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageC++C++C++, JavaScript
Server operating systemsLinuxDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
hostedLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regexyes
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
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnonoSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
none infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
proprietary protocol using JSONRESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBCdBase proprietary IDEJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.limited functionality with using 'rules'JavaScriptyes
TriggersnonoCallbacks are triggered when data changesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factornoneSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoquery execution via MapReducenononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infonot for dBase internal data, but IDE does support transactions when accessing external DBMSyesDocument is locked during a transactionACID
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 KerberosAccess rights for users and rolesyes, based on authentication and database rulessimple password-based access controlyes

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