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System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. ArcadeDB vs. Axibase vs. Infobright

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

Fast and scalable multi-model DBMS, originally forked from OrientDB but most of the code has been rewritten

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualization

High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Time Series DBMS

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Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	12.45
Rank	#40	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#358	Overall
	#48	Document stores
	#38	Graph DBMS
	#52	Key-value stores
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.35
Rank	#282	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.02
Rank	#192	Overall
	#90	Relational DBMS

Website

impala.apache.org

arcadedb.com

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/infobrightdb

Technical documentation

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

docs.arcadedb.com

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

Arcade Data

Axibase Corporation

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

Initial release

2013

2021

2013

2005

Current release

4.1.0, June 2022

September 2021

15585

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Community Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paid

commercial

The open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

short, integer, long, float, double, decimal, string

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

Knowledge Grid Technology used instead

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

SQL-like query language, no joins

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
MongoDB API
OpenCypher
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Redis API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
TinkerPop Gremlin

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Java

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationship in graphs

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

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