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System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. BigchainDB vs. FatDB vs. Sqrrl

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Name

FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.

Sqrrl has been acquired by Amazon and became a part of Amazon Web Services. It has been removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

BigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assets

A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.

Adaptable, secure NoSQL built on Apache Accumulo

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Document store
Key-value store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	10.63
Rank	#40	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

Score	0.76
Rank	#216	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Website

impala.apache.org

www.bigchaindb.com

sqrrl.com

Technical documentation

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

FatCloud

Amazon

originally Sqrrl Data, Inc.

Initial release

2013

2016

2012

Current release

4.1.0, June 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Python

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

Via inetgration in SQL Server

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings

Accumulo Shell
Java API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

Actionscript
C

using GLib
C#
C++
Cocoa
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

yes

via applications

Triggers

yes

via applications

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

making use of Hadoop

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

making use of Hadoop

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Document store kept consistent with combination of global timestamping, row-level transactions, and server-side consistency resolution.

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic updates per row, document, or graph entity

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles

based on Apache Sentry and Kerberos

yes

Can implement custom security layer via applications

Cell-level Security, Data-Centric Security, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC)

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