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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

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

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Secondary database models

Document store

Spatial DBMS

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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	4.64
Rank	#68	Overall
	#8	Key-value stores

Score	2.64
Rank	#108	Overall
	#52	Relational DBMS

Website

impala.apache.org

bangdb.com

www.ehcache.org

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

Technical documentation

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

docs.bangdb.com

www.ehcache.org/documentation

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

SAP, formerly Sybase

Initial release

2013

2012

2009

1994

Current release

4.1.0, June 2022

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

3.10.0, March 2022

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

BSD 3

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C, C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

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

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

JCache

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

Java

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

yes

Triggers

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

yes

Cache Event Listeners

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

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

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

yes

by using Terracotta Server

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

Tunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

supports JTA and can work as an XA resource

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, optimistic concurrency control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as well

yes

using a tiered cache-storage approach

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

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