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System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. BigObject vs. GridDB vs. openGauss vs. STSdb

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NameApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonGridDB  Xexclude from comparisonopenGauss  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for HadoopAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesScalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big DataAn enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with high-performance, high-availability and high-performance originally developed by HuaweiKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument storeKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score13.77
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#333  Overall
#147  Relational DBMS
Score1.95
Rank#128  Overall
#10  Time Series DBMS
Score1.08
Rank#183  Overall
#84  Relational DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Websiteimpala.apache.orgbigobject.iogriddb.netgitee.com/­opengauss
opengauss.org
github.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmldocs.bigobject.iodocs.griddb.netdocs.opengauss.org/­en
gitee.com/­opengauss/­docs
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaBigObject, Inc.Toshiba CorporationHuawei and openGauss communitySTS Soft SC
Initial release20132015201320192011
Current release4.1.0, June 20225.1, August 20223.0, March 20224.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoAGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also availableOpen SourceOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C++C, C++, JavaC#
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
LinuxLinuxWindows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infonumerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestampyesyes 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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)ANSI SQL 2011no
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBC
ODBC
.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBCC
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Java
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceLuanoyesno
Triggersnonoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardinghorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash)none
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factornoneSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoquery execution via MapReducenoConnector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobsnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencynoneImmediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containersImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACID at container levelACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyesyes
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.noyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and KerberosnoAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardno
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Apache ImpalaBigObjectGridDBopenGaussSTSdb
Specific characteristicsGridDB is a highly scalable, in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and...
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Competitive advantages1. Optimized for IoT Equipped with Toshiba's proprietary key-container data model...
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Typical application scenariosFactory IoT, Automative Industry, Energy, BEMS, Smart Community, Monitoring system.
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Key customersDenso International [see use case ] An Electric Power company [see use case ] Ishinomaki...
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Market metricsGitHub trending repository
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen Source license (AGPL v3 & Apache v2) Commercial license (subscription)
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