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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

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

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

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Score	12.45
Rank	#40	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

Score	0.35
Rank	#282	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.23
Rank	#93	Overall
	#48	Relational DBMS

Score	0.63
Rank	#241	Overall
	#112	Relational DBMS

Website

impala.apache.org

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

Technical documentation

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

Axibase Corporation

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Initial release

2013

2013

2001

2012

Current release

4.1.0, June 2022

15585

2.7.2, June 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

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

Open Source

based on BSD license

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

no

no

no

no

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Embedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

yes

yes

yes

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes

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

yes

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.

no

no

no

no

Secondary indexes

yes

no

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

SQL-like query language

yes

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

yes

Java, SQL

no

Triggers

no

yes

yes

no

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Sharding

none

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

none

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

yes

no

no

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

no

no

yes

yes

Transaction concepts

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

no

no

ACID

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes

yes

no

except by serializing a db to a file

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

no

yes

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

no

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