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System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. BaseX vs. BoltDB vs. Heroic vs. SQream DB

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NameApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for HadoopLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.An embedded key-value store for Go.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearcha GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads
Primary database modelRelational DBMSNative XML DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
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Score12.45
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score1.84
Rank#135  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score0.80
Rank#215  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#224  Overall
#103  Relational DBMS
Websiteimpala.apache.orgbasex.orggithub.com/­boltdb/­boltgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicsqream.com
Technical documentationimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmldocs.basex.orgspotify.github.io/­heroicdocs.sqream.com
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaBaseX GmbHSpotifySQream Technologies
Initial release20132007201320142017
Current release4.1.0, June 202211.0, June 20242022.1.6, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaGoJavaC++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesno infoXQuery supports typesnoyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Types
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes infovia Elasticsearchno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnononoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBCActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
GoC++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceyesnonouser defined functions in Python
Triggersnoyes infovia eventsnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenoneShardinghorizontal and vertical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factornonenoneyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoquery execution via MapReducenononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanomultiple readers, single writeryesnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and KerberosUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsno

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