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

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

In-memory caching system

Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Key-value store

Document store

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

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Rank	#40	Overall
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Score	0.19
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#388	Overall
	#62	Key-value stores

Score	0.31
Rank	#296	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	0.06
Rank	#383	Overall
	#43	Time Series DBMS

Website

impala.apache.org

bigobject.io

cachelot.io

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

Technical documentation

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

docs.bigobject.io

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb/blob/master/README.md

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

BigObject, Inc.

Softmotions

SiteWhere

Initial release

2013

2015

2012

2010

Current release

4.1.0, June 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

Simplified BSD License

Open Source

GPLv2

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

server-less

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

predefined scheme

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

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

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Memcached protocol

in-process shared library

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

All 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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

Lua

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

none

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

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

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

Transaction concepts

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

yes

Read/Write Locking

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles

based on Apache Sentry and Kerberos

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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