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System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. ArcadeDB vs. jBASE vs. SwayDB vs. TerminusDB

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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

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Time Series DBMS

in next version

Multivalue DBMS

Key-value store

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
RDF store

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Trend Chart

Score	13.77
Rank	#40	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

Score	0.02
Rank	#366	Overall
	#50	Document stores
	#38	Graph DBMS
	#53	Key-value stores
	#36	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.41
Rank	#159	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#382	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores

Score	0.17
Rank	#325	Overall
	#29	Graph DBMS

Website

impala.apache.org

arcadedb.com

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

swaydb.simer.au

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

docs.arcadedb.com

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

Arcade Data

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Simer Plaha

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2013

2021

1991

2018

Current release

4.1.0, June 2022

September 2021

5.7

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Scala

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

SQL-like query language, no joins

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

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

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Java

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

Java
Kotlin
Scala

JavaScript
Python

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

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

yes

none

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationship in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Atomic execution of operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory journaling

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

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Role-based access control

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