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System Properties Comparison Apache Doris vs. Apache Impala vs. BigchainDB vs. EXASOL vs. Microsoft SQL Server

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Name

Description

An MPP-based analytics DBMS embracing the MySQL protocol

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

BigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assets

High-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.57
Rank	#244	Overall
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Score	13.77
Rank	#40	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

Score	0.79
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	1.99
Rank	#124	Overall
	#58	Relational DBMS

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Website

doris.apache.org
github.com/apache/doris

impala.apache.org

www.bigchaindb.com

www.exasol.com

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

Technical documentation

github.com/apache/doris/wiki

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

www.exasol.com/resources

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

Developer

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from Baidu

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

Exasol

Microsoft

Initial release

2017

2013

2016

2000

1989

Current release

1.2.2, February 2023

4.1.0, June 2022

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

restricted free version is available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Python

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
MySQL client

JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

Supported programming languages

Java

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

Java
Lua
Python
R

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

user defined functions

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

yes

Hadoop integration

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

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

yes

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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