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DBMS > Apache Impala vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Firebird vs. Machbase Neo vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search

System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Firebird vs. Machbase Neo vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search

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NameApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonAtos Standard Common Repository  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonMachbase Neo infoFormer name was Infiniflux  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparison
This system has been discontinued and will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for HadoopHighly scalable database system, designed for managing session and subscriber data in modern mobile communication networksFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseTimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigDataSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app development
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsDocument storeVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score14.03
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score21.06
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score0.22
Rank#324  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score5.71
Rank#64  Overall
#8  Search engines
Websiteimpala.apache.orgatos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repositorywww.firebirdsql.orgmachbase.comazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­search
Technical documentationimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmlwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsmachbase.com/­dbmslearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­search
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaAtos Convergence CreatorsFirebird FoundationMachbaseMicrosoft
Initial release201320162000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase20132015
Current release4.1.0, June 202217035.0.0, January 2024V8.0, August 2023V1
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public Licensecommercial infofree test version availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
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Implementation languageC++JavaC and C++C
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
hosted
Data schemeyesSchema and schema-less with LDAP viewsyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesoptionalyesyesyes
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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoyesSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
LDAPADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBCAll languages with LDAP bindingsC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP infovia ODBC
Python
R infovia ODBC
Scala
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reducenoPSQLnono
Triggersnoyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infocell divisionnoneShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factoryesSource-replica replicationselectable replication factoryes infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoquery execution via MapReducenonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoAtomic execution of specific operationsACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesnoyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes infovolatile and lookup tableno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and KerberosLDAP bind authenticationUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptsimple password-based access controlyes infousing Azure authentication

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