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DBMS > Apache Impala vs. BigchainDB vs. Heroic vs. Splice Machine vs. Teradata Aster

System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. BigchainDB vs. Heroic vs. Splice Machine vs. Teradata Aster

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NameApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonSplice Machine  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata Aster  Xexclude from comparison
Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for HadoopBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchOpen-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and SparkPlatform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
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Score13.77
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score0.54
Rank#250  Overall
#114  Relational DBMS
Websiteimpala.apache.orgwww.bigchaindb.comgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicsplicemachine.com
Technical documentationimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmlbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestspotify.github.io/­heroicsplicemachine.com/­how-it-works
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaSpotifySplice MachineTeradata
Initial release20132016201420142005
Current release4.1.0, June 20223.1, March 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoAGPL 3.0, commercial license availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++PythonJavaJava
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free) infodefined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesyes
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.nononoyes infoin Aster File Store
Secondary indexesyesyes infovia Elasticsearchyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnonoyesyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBCGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reducenoyes infoJavaR packages
Triggersnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingShared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar PartitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorselectable replication factoryesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes infoDimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoquery execution via MapReducenonoYes, via Full Spark Integrationyes infoSQL Map-Reduce Framework
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and KerberosyesAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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