DBMS > Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. Apache Impala vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. OpenEdge vs. TempoIQ

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. Apache Impala vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. OpenEdge vs. TempoIQ

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Name

TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

A cloud-native relational database compatible with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle. Designed for business critical applications.

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Scalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	0.66
Rank	#235	Overall
	#108	Relational DBMS

Score	12.45
Rank	#40	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#366	Overall
	#39	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.45
Rank	#85	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/polardb

impala.apache.org

www.hawkular.org

www.progress.com/openedge

tempoiq.com (offline)

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/polardb/product-overview

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

www.hawkular.org/hawkular-metrics/docs/user-guide

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

Developer

Alibaba

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

Community supported by Red Hat

Progress Software Corporation

TempoIQ

Initial release

2013

2014

1984

2012

Current release

4.1.0, June 2022

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

close to SQL 92

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

yes

Triggers

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

yes

Realtime Alerts

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

based on Cassandra

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

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

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

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.

yes

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

Users and groups

simple authentication-based access control

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