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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Apache Impala vs. Axibase vs. BigObject vs. EventStoreDB

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Description

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

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualization

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

Industrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Event Store

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	2.28
Rank	#119	Overall
	#23	Document stores
	#56	Relational DBMS

Score	14.03
Rank	#40	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

Score	0.32
Rank	#288	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#342	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Score	1.14
Rank	#181	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

Website

drill.apache.org

impala.apache.org

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

bigobject.io

www.eventstore.com

Technical documentation

drill.apache.org/docs

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

docs.bigobject.io

developers.eventstore.com

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

Axibase Corporation

BigObject, Inc.

Event Store Limited

Initial release

2012

2013

2015

2012

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

4.1.0, June 2022

15585

21.2, February 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Community Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paid

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

short, integer, long, float, double, decimal, string

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

SQL-like query language

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C++

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

yes

Lua

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

Transaction concepts

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

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

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