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System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. Apache Kylin vs. Faircom DB vs. HugeGraph vs. SQL.JS

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

A distributed analytics engine for big data, providing a SQL interface and multi-dimensional analysis (OLAP) and leveraging the Hadoop stack

Native high-speed multi-model DBMS for relational and key-value store data simultaneously accessible through SQL and NoSQL APIs.

A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

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Score	13.77
Rank	#40	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

Score	1.18
Rank	#172	Overall
	#79	Relational DBMS

Score	0.20
Rank	#318	Overall
	#48	Key-value stores
	#141	Relational DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#336	Overall
	#32	Graph DBMS

Score	0.53
Rank	#252	Overall
	#116	Relational DBMS

Website

impala.apache.org

kylin.apache.org

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-db

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

Technical documentation

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

kylin.apache.org/docs

docs.faircom.com/docs/en/UUID-7446ae34-a1a7-c843-c894-d5322e395184.html

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay Inc

FairCom Corporation

Baidu

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Initial release

2013

2015

1979

2018

2012

Current release

4.1.0, June 2022

3.1.0, July 2020

V12, November 2020

0.9

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Restricted, free version available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

no

no

no

no

no

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Implementation language

C++

Java

ANSI C, C++

Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
QNX
SCO
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

easily portable to other OSs

Linux
macOS
Unix

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

yes

yes

schema free, schema optional, schema required, partial schema,

yes

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes

yes, ANSI SQL Types, JSON, typed binary structures

yes

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.

no

no

no

no

no

Secondary indexes

yes

yes

yes

yes

also supports composite index and range index

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

yes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensions

no

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
Direct SQL
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful MQTT/JSON API
RPC

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js and browser)
PHP
Python
Visual Basic

Groovy
Java
Python

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

no

Triggers

no

yes

no

no

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

File partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding

Customizable business rules for table partitioning

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes, configurable to be parallel or serial, synchronous or asynchronous, uni-directional or bi-directional, ACID-consistent or eventually consistent (with custom conflict resolution).

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

yes

no

via hugegraph-spark

no

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Tunable consistency per server, database, table, and transaction

Eventual Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

no

yes

yes

edges in graph

yes

Transaction concepts

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

no

tunable from ACID to Eventually Consistent

ACID

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes

yes

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes

Yes, tunable from durable to delayed durability to in-memory

yes

no

except by serializing a db to a file

In-memory capabilities

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

no

no

yes

yes

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles

based on Apache Sentry and Kerberos

Fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard with additional protections for files

Users, roles and permissions

no

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