DBMS > Apache Impala vs. BaseX vs. Cloudflare Workers KV vs. Google BigQuery

System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. BaseX vs. Cloudflare Workers KV vs. Google BigQuery

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

Light-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.

A global, low-latency, key-value store for applications on Cloudflare with exceptionally high read volumes and low-latency.

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	12.45
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	#24	Relational DBMS

Score	1.84
Rank	#135	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	0.39
Rank	#274	Overall
	#39	Key-value stores

Score	58.10
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Website

impala.apache.org

basex.org

www.cloudflare.com/developer-platform/workers-kv

cloud.google.com/bigquery

Technical documentation

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

docs.basex.org

developers.cloudflare.com/kv/api

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

BaseX GmbH

Cloudflare

Google

Initial release

2013

2007

2018

2010

Current release

4.1.0, June 2022

11.0, June 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XQuery supports types

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

HTTP REST
Proprietary protocol

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

C
C++
Dart
JavaScript
Kotlin
Python
Rust
Scala

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

yes

user defined functions

in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

via events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

none

yes

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

multiple readers, single writer

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles

based on Apache Sentry and Kerberos

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

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