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System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. Apache Jena - TDB vs. Riak TS vs. searchxml vs. Sphinx

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NameApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonApache Jena - TDB  Xexclude from comparisonRiak TS  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for HadoopA RDF storage and query DBMS, shipped as an optional-use component of the Apache Jena frameworkRiak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KVDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application serverOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRDF storeTime Series DBMSNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Search engine
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score13.77
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score3.75
Rank#84  Overall
#3  RDF stores
Score0.20
Rank#319  Overall
#27  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#25  Search engines
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websiteimpala.apache.orgjena.apache.org/­documentation/­tdb/­index.htmlwww.searchxml.net/­category/­productssphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmljena.apache.org/­documentation/­tdb/­index.htmlwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­ts/­latestwww.searchxml.net/­support/­handoutssphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaApache Software Foundation infooriginally developed by HP LabsOpen Source, formerly Basho Technologiesinformationpartners gmbhSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release20132000201520152001
Current release4.1.0, June 20224.9.0, July 20233.0.0, September 20221.03.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache License, Version 2.0Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaErlangC++C++
Server operating systemsLinuxAll OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
WindowsFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyes infoRDF Schemasschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesno
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.nonoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesrestrictedyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoyes, limitednoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Fuseki infoREST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBCJavaC infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIsC++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceyesErlangyes infoon the application serverno
Triggersnoyes infovia event handleryes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingnoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factornoneselectable replication factoryes infosychronisation to multiple collectionsnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoquery execution via MapReducenoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infolinks between datasets can be storednono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID infoTDB Transactionsnomultiple readers, single writerno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and KerberosAccess control via Jena SecuritynoDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application servicesno

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