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DBMS > Apache Impala vs. BaseX vs. Hive vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. BaseX vs. Hive vs. STSdb

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NameApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for HadoopLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelRelational DBMSNative XML DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score13.77
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score1.73
Rank#142  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score61.17
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Websiteimpala.apache.orgbasex.orghive.apache.orggithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmldocs.basex.orgcwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Home
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaBaseX GmbHApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookSTS Soft SC
Initial release2013200720122011
Current release4.1.0, June 202210.7, August 20233.1.3, April 20224.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaJavaC#
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMWindows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesno infoXQuery supports typesyesyes 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.no
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
.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++
Java
PHP
Python
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceyesyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceno
Triggersnoyes infovia eventsnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factornoneselectable replication factornone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoquery execution via MapReducenoyes infoquery execution via MapReduceno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanomultiple readers, single writernono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.no
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and KerberosUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsAccess rights for users, groups and rolesno

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