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System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. dBASE vs. openGauss

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

dBase was one of the first databases with a development environment on PC's. Its latest version dBase V is still sold as dBase classic, which needs a DOS Emulation. The up-to-date product is dBase plus.

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with high-performance, high-availability and high-performance originally developed by Huawei

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	13.77
Rank	#40	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

Score	10.34
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	1.08
Rank	#183	Overall
	#84	Relational DBMS

Website

impala.apache.org

www.dbase.com

gitee.com/opengauss
opengauss.org

Technical documentation

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

docs.opengauss.org/en
gitee.com/opengauss/docs

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

Asthon Tate

Huawei and openGauss community

Initial release

2013

1979

2019

Current release

4.1.0, June 2022

dBASE 2019, 2019

3.0, March 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C, C++, Java

Server operating systems

Linux

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

ANSI SQL 2011

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

dBase proprietary IDE

C
C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash)

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

not for dBase internal data, but IDE does support transactions when accessing external DBMS

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles

based on Apache Sentry and Kerberos

Access rights for users and roles

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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