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DBMS > Apache Impala vs. Firebird vs. OpenMLDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. Firebird vs. OpenMLDB

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NameApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonOpenMLDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for HadoopFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseAn open-source machine learning database that provides a feature platform for training and inference
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeRelational DBMS
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Score13.77
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score20.82
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score0.02
Rank#367  Overall
#37  Time Series DBMS
Websiteimpala.apache.orgwww.firebirdsql.orgopenmldb.ai
Technical documentationimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmlwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsopenmldb.ai/­docs/­zh/­main
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaFirebird Foundation4 Paradigm Inc.
Initial release20132000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase2020
Current release4.1.0, June 20225.0.0, January 20242024-2 February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
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Implementation languageC++C and C++C++, Java, Scala
Server operating systemsLinuxAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyesFixed schema
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes
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.nono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
JDBC
SQLAlchemy
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBCC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reducePSQLno
Triggersnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonehorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoquery execution via MapReduceno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual 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 writersyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
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-standard

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