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System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. Apache Phoenix vs. Axibase vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. STSdb

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NameApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for HadoopA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualizationDistributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Key-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
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Score13.77
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score1.97
Rank#126  Overall
#59  Relational DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#292  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
Score0.19
Rank#323  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Websiteimpala.apache.orgphoenix.apache.orgaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financewww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storegithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmlphoenix.apache.orgwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-store
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaApache Software FoundationAxibase CorporationIBMSTS Soft SC
Initial release20132014201320172011
Current release4.1.0, June 20225.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 2019155852.04.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidcommercial infofree developer edition availableOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaJavaC and C++C#
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
Unix
Windows
LinuxLinux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionWindows
Data schemeyesyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, stringyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesnonono
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesSQL-like query languageyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimeno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
JDBCJDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBCC
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceuser defined functionsyesyesno
Triggersnonoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationActive-active shard replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoquery execution via MapReduceHadoop integrationyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesNo - written data is immutableyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storageyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and KerberosAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancyfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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