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DBMS > Apache Impala vs. Bangdb vs. Blazegraph vs. FatDB vs. FileMaker

System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. Bangdb vs. Blazegraph vs. FatDB vs. FileMaker

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NameApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonFatDB  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparison
Amazon has acquired Blazegraph's domain and (probably) product. It is said that Amazon Neptune is based on Blazegraph.FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for HadoopConverged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphHigh-performance graph database supporting Semantic Web (RDF/SPARQL) and Graph Database (tinkerpop3, blueprints, vertex-centric) APIs with scale-out and High Availability.A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.FileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeSpatial DBMS
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Score12.45
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score0.16
Rank#338  Overall
#47  Document stores
#32  Graph DBMS
#31  Time Series DBMS
Score0.81
Rank#213  Overall
#19  Graph DBMS
#8  RDF stores
Score47.91
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Websiteimpala.apache.orgbangdb.comblazegraph.comwww.claris.com/­filemaker
Technical documentationimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmldocs.bangdb.comwiki.blazegraph.comwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentation
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaSachin Sinha, BangDBBlazegraphFatCloudClaris infoa subsidiary of Apple
Initial release20132012200620121983
Current release4.1.0, June 2022BangDB 2.0, October 20212.1.5, March 201919.4.1, November 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoBSD 3Open Source infoextended commercial license availablecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C, C++JavaC#
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
WindowsiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsyes infoRDF literal typesyesyes
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.nonoyes infoA http query request can return the data in XML format
Secondary indexesyesyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL like support with command line toolSPARQL is used as query languageno infoVia inetgration in SQL Serveryes infovia plugins
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3
.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings
Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBCC
C#
C++
Java
Python
.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#PHP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reducenoyesyes infovia applicationsyes
Triggersnoyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)noyes infovia applicationsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)yesselectable replication factorSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoquery execution via MapReducenonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infoRelationships in Graphsnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, optimistic concurrency controlyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes, run db with in-memory only mode
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and Kerberosyes (enterprise version only)Security and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)no infoCan implement custom security layer via applicationssimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory services

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