DBMS > Apache Impala vs. Apache Kylin vs. FatDB vs. SAP HANA vs. SpatiaLite

System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. Apache Kylin vs. FatDB vs. SAP HANA vs. SpatiaLite

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Name

FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.

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

A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Spatial extension of SQLite

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	13.77
Rank	#40	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

Score	1.18
Rank	#172	Overall
	#79	Relational DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	1.60
Rank	#149	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Website

impala.apache.org

kylin.apache.org

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

Technical documentation

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

kylin.apache.org/docs

help.sap.com/hana

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay Inc

FatCloud

SAP

Alessandro Furieri

Initial release

2013

2015

2012

2010

2008

Current release

4.1.0, June 2022

3.1.0, July 2020

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

server-less

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

Via inetgration in SQL Server

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

yes

via applications

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

via applications

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes

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

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate 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

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles

based on Apache Sentry and Kerberos

Can implement custom security layer via applications

yes

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