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System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. Apache Impala vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. XTDB

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Name

Description

Multi-model database supporting relational and graph data models and built upon PostgreSQL

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

A Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasets

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Document store

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	0.20
Rank	#321	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS
	#143	Relational DBMS

Score	13.77
Rank	#40	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

Score	4.48
Rank	#75	Overall
	#6	Wide column stores

Score	0.11
Rank	#343	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

bitnine.net/agensgraph

impala.apache.org

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/storage/tables

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

bitnine.net/documentation

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Bitnine Global Inc.

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

Microsoft

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2016

2013

2012

2019

Current release

2.1, December 2018

4.1.0, June 2022

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Clojure

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

hosted

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

depending on used data model

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

Cypher Query Language
JDBC

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

C
Java
JavaScript
Python

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

no, but can be realized using table inheritance

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

yes

implicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.

yes, each node contains all data

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

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

optimistic locking

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users, groups and roles

based on Apache Sentry and Kerberos

Access rights based on private key authentication or shared access signatures

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