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System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. Apache Phoenix vs. CouchDB vs. InfinityDB vs. Sequoiadb

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NameApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for HadoopA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseA native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interfaceNewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeKey-value storeDocument store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extension
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Score12.45
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score2.06
Rank#123  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score8.30
Rank#47  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score0.08
Rank#365  Overall
#55  Key-value stores
Score0.50
Rank#258  Overall
#41  Document stores
#120  Relational DBMS
Websiteimpala.apache.orgphoenix.apache.orgcouchdb.apache.orgboilerbay.comwww.sequoiadb.com
Technical documentationimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmlphoenix.apache.orgdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stableboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manualwww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=index
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaApache Software FoundationApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerBoiler Bay Inc.Sequoiadb Ltd.
Initial release20132014200520022013
Current release4.1.0, June 20225.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 20193.3.3, December 20234.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2commercialOpen Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaErlangJavaC++
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
Unix
Windows
Android
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux
Data schemeyesyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesschema-freeyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgradeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arraysyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regex
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infovia viewsno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesnonoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
JDBCRESTful HTTP/JSON APIAccess via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
proprietary protocol using JSON
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBCC
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
Java.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceuser defined functionsView functions in JavaScriptnoJavaScript
Triggersnonoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0noneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneSource-replica replication
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 ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZEDEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDno infoatomic operations within a single document possibleACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loadsDocument is locked during a transaction
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnonono
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-tenancyAccess rights for users can be defined per databasenosimple password-based access control

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