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System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. Interbase vs. Kingbase vs. TDengine

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NameApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonKingbase  Xexclude from comparisonTDengine  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for HadoopLight-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandAn enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.Time Series DBMS and big data platform
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational 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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Score12.45
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score4.08
Rank#75  Overall
#41  Relational DBMS
Score0.50
Rank#257  Overall
#119  Relational DBMS
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Websiteimpala.apache.orgwww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasewww.kingbase.com.cngithub.com/­taosdata/­TDengine
tdengine.com
Technical documentationimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmldocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasedocs.tdengine.com
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaEmbarcaderoBeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.TDEngine, previously Taos Data
Initial release2013198419992019
Current release4.1.0, June 2022InterBase 2020, December 2019V8.0, August 20213.0, August 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialcommercialOpen Source infoAGPL V3, also commercial editions available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++CC and JavaC
Server operating systemsLinuxAndroid
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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 infoexport as XML data possibleyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesStandard with numerous extensionsStandard SQL with extensions for time-series applications
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languageuser defined functionsno
Triggersnoyesyesyes, via alarm monitoring
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonehorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorInterbase Change Viewsyesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoquery execution via MapReducenono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyesyes
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.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and Kerberosfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes
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Apache ImpalaInterbaseKingbaseTDengine
Specific characteristicsTDengine™ is a next generation data historian purpose-built for Industry 4.0 and...
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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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