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DBMS > Apache Impala vs. BigObject vs. Cachelot.io vs. EJDB vs. FoundationDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. BigObject vs. Cachelot.io vs. EJDB vs. FoundationDB

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NameApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonCachelot.io  Xexclude from comparisonEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparison
Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market. As a consequence, the product was removed from the DB-Engines ranking. In April 2018, Apple open-sourced FoundationDB and it therefore reappears in the ranking.
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for HadoopAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesIn-memory caching systemEmbeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)Ordered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedKey-value storeDocument storeDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score12.45
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score0.19
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#388  Overall
#62  Key-value stores
Score0.31
Rank#296  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score1.06
Rank#185  Overall
#31  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#85  Relational DBMS
Websiteimpala.apache.orgbigobject.iocachelot.iogithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbgithub.com/­apple/­foundationdb
Technical documentationimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmldocs.bigobject.iogithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mdapple.github.io/­foundationdb
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaBigObject, Inc.SoftmotionsFoundationDB
Initial release20132015201520122013
Current release4.1.0, June 20226.2.28, November 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoSimplified BSD LicenseOpen Source infoGPLv2Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C++CC++
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
server-lessLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free infosome layers support schemas
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idno infosome layers support typing
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 indexesyesyesnonono
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnonosupported in specific SQL layer only
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Memcached protocolin-process shared library
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceLuanonoin SQL-layer only
Triggersnonononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factornonenonenoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoquery execution via MapReducenononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencynonenoneLinearizable consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesnono infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possiblein SQL-layer only
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonononoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyes infoRead/Write Lockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesnoyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and Kerberosnononono

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