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System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. Apache Pinot vs. Galaxybase vs. Hive vs. HugeGraph

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NameApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonApache Pinot  Xexclude from comparisonGalaxybase  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for HadoopRealtime distributed OLAP datastore, designed to answer OLAP queries with low latencyScalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platformdata warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopA fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score13.77
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score0.40
Rank#270  Overall
#125  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#39  Graph DBMS
Score61.17
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#336  Overall
#32  Graph DBMS
Websiteimpala.apache.orgpinot.apache.orggalaxybase.comhive.apache.orggithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
Technical documentationimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmldocs.pinot.apache.orgcwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homehugegraph.apache.org/­docs
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaApache Software Foundation and contributorsChuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司Apache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookBaidu
Initial release20132015201720122018
Current release4.1.0, June 20221.0.0, September 2023Nov 20, November 20213.1.3, April 20220.9
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaC and JavaJavaJava
Server operating systemsLinuxAll OS with a Java JDK11 or higherLinuxAll OS with a Java VMLinux
macOS
Unix
Data schemeyesyesStrong typed schemayesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infoalso supports composite index and range index
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query languagenoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
JDBCBrowser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBCGo
Java
Python
Go
Java
Python
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Groovy
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceuser defined procedures and functionsyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceasynchronous Gremlin script jobs
Triggersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioningShardingShardingyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorselectable replication factoryes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoquery execution via MapReducenoyes infoquery execution via MapReducevia hugegraph-spark
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoRelationships in graphsnoyes infoedges in graph
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
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 KerberosRole-based access controlAccess rights for users, groups and rolesUsers, roles and permissions

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