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System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. Bangdb vs. Greenplum vs. HyperSQL vs. Prometheus

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NameApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonGreenplum  Xexclude from comparisonHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDB  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for HadoopConverged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphAnalytic Database platform built on PostgreSQL. Full name is Pivotal Greenplum Database infoA logical database in Greenplum is an array of individual PostgreSQL databases working together to present a single database image.Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java infoalso known as HSQLDBOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeSpatial DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score13.77
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#347  Overall
#47  Document stores
#34  Graph DBMS
#31  Time Series DBMS
Score8.37
Rank#48  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score3.49
Rank#87  Overall
#47  Relational DBMS
Score8.42
Rank#47  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
Websiteimpala.apache.orgbangdb.comgreenplum.orghsqldb.orgprometheus.io
Technical documentationimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmldocs.bangdb.comdocs.greenplum.orghsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.htmlprometheus.io/­docs
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaSachin Sinha, BangDBPivotal Software Inc.
Initial release20132012200520012015
Current release4.1.0, June 2022BangDB 2.0, October 20217.0.0, September 20232.7.2, June 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoBSD 3Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infobased on BSD licenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C, C++JavaGo
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxLinuxAll OS with a Java VM infoEmbedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modesLinux
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsyesyesNumeric data only
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 infosince Version 4.2nono infoImport of XML data possible
Secondary indexesyesyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL like support with command line toolyesyesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API infoJDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBCC
C#
C++
Java
Python
C
Java
Perl
Python
R
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reducenoyesJava, SQLno
Triggersnoyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)yesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)Source-replica replicationnoneyes infoby Federation
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoquery execution via MapReducenoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACIDno
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 modenoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and Kerberosyes (enterprise version only)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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