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System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. Firebird vs. Greenplum vs. jBASE vs. TDengine

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NameApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonGreenplum  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  Xexclude from comparisonTDengine  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for HadoopFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseAnalytic Database platform built on PostgreSQL. Full name is Pivotal Greenplum Database infoA logical database in Greenplum is an array of individual PostgreSQL databases working together to present a single database image.A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middlewareTime Series DBMS and big data platform
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSMultivalue DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score13.77
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score20.82
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score8.37
Rank#48  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score1.41
Rank#159  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Score2.60
Rank#107  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
Websiteimpala.apache.orgwww.firebirdsql.orggreenplum.orgwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbasegithub.com/­taosdata/­TDengine
tdengine.com
Technical documentationimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmlwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsdocs.greenplum.orgdocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9docs.tdengine.com
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaFirebird FoundationPivotal Software Inc.Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)TDEngine, previously Taos Data
Initial release20132000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase200519912019
Current release4.1.0, June 20225.0.0, January 20247.0.0, September 20235.73.0, August 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoAGPL V3, also commercial editions available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C and C++C
Server operating systemsLinuxAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
LinuxAIX
Linux
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesoptionalyes
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.noyes infosince Version 4.2yesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesyesEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASICStandard SQL with extensions for time-series applications
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBCC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
Java
Perl
Python
R
.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reducePSQLyesyesno
Triggersnoyesyesyesyes, via alarm monitoring
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationyesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoquery execution via MapReducenoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyesyes
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.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and KerberosUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelyes
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Competitive advantagesHigh Performance at any Scale: TDengine is purpose-built for handling massive industrial...
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Typical application scenariosTDengine is designed for Industrial IoT scenarios, including: Manufacturing Connected...
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Market metricsTDengine has garnered over 22,500 stars on GitHub and is used in over 50 countries...
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Licensing and pricing modelsTDengine OSS is an open source, cloud native time series database. It includes built-in...
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