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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Apache Impala vs. eXtremeDB vs. OpenQM vs. searchxml

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Name

Description

Schema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud Storage

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

Natively in-memory DBMS with options for persistency, high-availability and clustering

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	1.95
Rank	#127	Overall
	#23	Document stores
	#60	Relational DBMS

Score	13.77
Rank	#40	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

Score	0.74
Rank	#223	Overall
	#103	Relational DBMS
	#18	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.27
Rank	#298	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#25	Search engines

Website

drill.apache.org

impala.apache.org

www.mcobject.com

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-open-qm

www.searchxml.net/category/products

Technical documentation

drill.apache.org/docs

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

www.mcobject.com/docs/extremedb.htm

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

McObject

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

informationpartners gmbh

Initial release

2012

2013

2001

1993

2015

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

4.1.0, June 2022

8.2, 2021

3.4-12

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

with some exceptions

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.

support of XML interfaces available

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

with the option: eXtremeSQL

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
JDBC
JNI
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

Supported programming languages

C++

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
Lua
Python
Scala

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

yes

on the application server

Triggers

yes

by defining events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning / sharding

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Active Replication Fabric™ for IoT
Multi-source replication

by means of eXtremeDB Cluster option
Source-replica replication

by means of eXtremeDB High Availability option

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

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

none

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

multiple readers, single writer

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic (MVCC) and pessimistic (locking) strategies available

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

User concepts

Access control

Depending on the underlying data source

Access rights for users, groups and roles

based on Apache Sentry and Kerberos

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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