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DBMS > Apache Impala vs. Firebird vs. Hyprcubd vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. Firebird vs. Hyprcubd vs. SWC-DB

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NameApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonHyprcubd  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  Xexclude from comparison
Hyprcubd seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for HadoopFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseServerless Time Series DBMSA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSWide column store
Secondary database modelsDocument storeTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score10.63
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score19.46
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score0.01
Rank#378  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Websiteimpala.apache.orgwww.firebirdsql.orghyprcubd.com (offline)github.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
Technical documentationimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmlwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manuals
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaFirebird FoundationHyprcubd, Inc.Alex Kashirin
Initial release20132000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase2020
Current release4.1.0, June 20225.0.1, August 20240.5, April 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicensecommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
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Implementation languageC++C and C++GoC++
Server operating systemsLinuxAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
hostedLinux
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infotime, int, uint, float, string
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 indexesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
gRPC (https)Proprietary protocol
Thrift
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBCC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reducePSQLnono
Triggersnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoquery execution via MapReducenonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersnoyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
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 KerberosUsers with fine-grained authorization concepttoken access

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