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DBMS > Apache Impala vs. BaseX vs. Drizzle vs. Geode vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. BaseX vs. Drizzle vs. Geode vs. STSdb

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NameApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonGeode  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for HadoopLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.MySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelRelational DBMSNative XML DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
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Score13.77
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score1.73
Rank#142  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score1.92
Rank#131  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Websiteimpala.apache.orgbasex.orggeode.apache.orggithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmldocs.basex.orggeode.apache.org/­docs
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaBaseX GmbHDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerOriginally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.STS Soft SC
Initial release20132007200820022011
Current release4.1.0, June 202210.7, August 20237.2.4, September 20121.1, February 20174.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoGNU GPLOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as GemfireOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaC++JavaC#
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
All OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredWindows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesno infoXQuery supports typesyesyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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.nono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoyes infowith proprietary extensionsSQL-like query language (OQL)no
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
JDBCJava Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBCActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
C
C++
Java
PHP
.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceyesnouser defined functionsno
Triggersnoyes infovia eventsno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.yes infoCache Event Listenersno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factornoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoquery execution via MapReducenononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanomultiple readers, single writerACIDyes, on a single nodeno
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.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and KerberosUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPAccess rights per client and object definableno

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