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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Impala vs. InfinityDB

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonImpala  Xexclude from comparisonInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSAnalytic DBMS for HadoopA Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
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Score1.25
Rank#198  Overall
#95  Relational DBMS
Score17.39
Rank#37  Overall
#23  Relational DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#373  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Websitealtibase.comwww.cloudera.com/­products/­open-source/­apache-hadoop/­impala.htmlboilerbay.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsdocs.cloudera.com/­documentation/­enterprise/­latest/­topics/­impala.htmlboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manual
DeveloperAltibaseClouderaBoiler Bay Inc.
Initial release199920132002
Current releasev7.1.0.5.3, March 20214.1.0, June 20224.0
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open Source infoApache Version 2commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
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Implementation languageC++C++Java
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
LinuxAll OS with a Java VM
Data schemeyesyesyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgrade
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92SQL-like DML and DDL statementsno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
JDBC
ODBC
Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBCJava
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceno
Triggersyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factornone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoquery execution via MapReduceno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and Kerberosno

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