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System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Faircom DB vs. Greenplum vs. Hive

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Name

This system has been discontinued and will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

Highly scalable database system, designed for managing session and subscriber data in modern mobile communication networks

Native high-speed multi-model DBMS for relational and key-value store data simultaneously accessible through SQL and NoSQL APIs.

Analytic Database platform built on PostgreSQL. Full name is Pivotal Greenplum Database

A logical database in Greenplum is an array of individual PostgreSQL databases working together to present a single database image.

data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on Hadoop

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	13.77
Rank	#40	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

Score	0.20
Rank	#318	Overall
	#48	Key-value stores
	#141	Relational DBMS

Score	8.37
Rank	#48	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Score	61.17
Rank	#18	Overall
	#12	Relational DBMS

Website

impala.apache.org

atos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repository

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-db

greenplum.org

hive.apache.org

Technical documentation

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

docs.faircom.com/docs/en/UUID-7446ae34-a1a7-c843-c894-d5322e395184.html

docs.greenplum.org

cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/Home

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

Atos Convergence Creators

FairCom Corporation

Pivotal Software Inc.

Apache Software Foundation

initially developed by Facebook

Initial release

2013

2016

1979

2005

2012

Current release

4.1.0, June 2022

1703

V12, November 2020

7.0.0, September 2023

3.1.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Restricted, free version available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

ANSI C, C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
QNX
SCO
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

easily portable to other OSs

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

yes

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

schema free, schema optional, schema required, partial schema,

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

yes, ANSI SQL Types, JSON, typed binary structures

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

since Version 4.2

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensions

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

LDAP

ADO.NET
Direct SQL
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful MQTT/JSON API
RPC

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

All languages with LDAP bindings

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js and browser)
PHP
Python
Visual Basic

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

C++
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

cell division

File partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding

Customizable business rules for table partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes

yes, configurable to be parallel or serial, synchronous or asynchronous, uni-directional or bi-directional, ACID-consistent or eventually consistent (with custom conflict resolution).

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

yes

query execution via MapReduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Tunable consistency per server, database, table, and transaction

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic execution of specific operations

tunable from ACID to Eventually Consistent

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Yes, tunable from durable to delayed durability to in-memory

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

LDAP bind authentication

Fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard with additional protections for files

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users, groups and roles

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