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System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. Bangdb vs. Brytlyt vs. EJDB vs. RDFox

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

Converged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graph

Scalable GPU-accelerated RDBMS for very fast analytic and streaming workloads, leveraging PostgreSQL

Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)

High performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Secondary database models

Document store

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	12.45
Rank	#40	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

Score	0.16
Rank	#338	Overall
	#47	Document stores
	#32	Graph DBMS
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.38
Rank	#276	Overall
	#127	Relational DBMS

Score	0.31
Rank	#296	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	0.29
Rank	#300	Overall
	#24	Graph DBMS
	#13	RDF stores

Website

impala.apache.org

bangdb.com

brytlyt.io

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

www.oxfordsemantic.tech

Technical documentation

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

docs.bangdb.com

docs.brytlyt.io

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb/blob/master/README.md

docs.oxfordsemantic.tech

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Brytlyt

Softmotions

Oxford Semantic Technologies

Initial release

2013

2012

2016

2012

2017

Current release

4.1.0, June 2022

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

5.0, August 2023

6.0, Septermber 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

BSD 3

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C, C++

C, C++ and CUDA

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

RDF schemas

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, events

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

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

specific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.

Secondary indexes

yes

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

SQL like support with command line tool

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

in-process shared library

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
Python
Tcl

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby

C
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

user defined functions

in PL/pgSQL

Triggers

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Sharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithm

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

selectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)

Source-replica replication

none

replication via a shared file system

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, optimistic concurrency control

yes

Read/Write Locking

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as well

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes, run db with in-memory only mode

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles

based on Apache Sentry and Kerberos

yes (enterprise version only)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Roles, resources, and access types

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