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System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. Axibase vs. ObjectBox vs. TerarkDB vs. YottaDB

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Description

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

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

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

A fast and solid embedded Key-value store

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

using the Octo plugin

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Score	12.45
Rank	#40	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

Score	0.35
Rank	#282	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.29
Rank	#166	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#367	Overall
	#56	Key-value stores

Score	0.28
Rank	#306	Overall
	#44	Key-value stores

Website

impala.apache.org

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

objectbox.io

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

yottadb.com

Technical documentation

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

docs.objectbox.io

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

yottadb.com/resources/documentation

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

Axibase Corporation

ObjectBox Limited

ByteDance, originally Terark

YottaDB, LLC

Initial release

2013

2017

2016

2001

Current release

4.1.0, June 2022

15585

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

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

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

restricted open source version available

Open Source

AGPL 3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

Docker
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

SQL-like query language

by using the Octo plugin

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary native API

C++ API
Java API

PostgreSQL wire protocol

using the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

C++
Java

C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust

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

online/offline synchronization between client and server

none

yes

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

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

optimistic locking

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

yes

Users and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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