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System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. Axibase vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. HBase vs. Hive

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NameApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for HadoopScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualizationHawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTabledata warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on Hadoop
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSWide column storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score13.77
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#292  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#379  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score30.50
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score61.17
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Websiteimpala.apache.orgaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financewww.hawkular.orghbase.apache.orghive.apache.org
Technical documentationimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmlwww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidehbase.apache.org/­book.htmlcwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Home
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaAxibase CorporationCommunity supported by Red HatApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by Facebook
Initial release20132013201420082012
Current release4.1.0, June 2022155852.3.4, January 20213.1.3, April 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaJavaJavaJava
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
All OS with a Java VM
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-free, schema definition possibleyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, stringyesoptions to bring your own types, AVROyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesnononoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query languagenonoSQL-like DML and DDL statements
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP RESTJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBCGo
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Go
Java
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceyesnoyes infoCoprocessors in Javayes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduce
Triggersnoyesyes infovia Hawkular Alertingyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infobased on CassandraShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoquery execution via MapReduceyesnoyesyes infoquery execution via MapReduce
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)no
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and KerberosnoAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACAccess rights for users, groups and roles

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