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System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. BigchainDB vs. HugeGraph vs. RethinkDB

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NameApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for HadoopBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsA fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeGraph DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument storeSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score12.45
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score0.17
Rank#335  Overall
#31  Graph DBMS
Score2.66
Rank#107  Overall
#20  Document stores
Websiteimpala.apache.orgwww.bigchaindb.comgithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
rethinkdb.com
Technical documentationimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmlbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latesthugegraph.apache.org/­docsrethinkdb.com/­docs
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaBaiduThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017
Initial release2013201620182009
Current release4.1.0, June 20220.92.4.1, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++PythonJavaC++
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxLinux
macOS
Unix
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometry
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 indexesyesyes infoalso supports composite index and range indexyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnonono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBCGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Groovy
Java
Python
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceasynchronous Gremlin script jobs
TriggersnonoClient-side triggers through changefeeds
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseSharding inforange based
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorselectable replication factoryes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoquery execution via MapReducenovia hugegraph-sparkyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infoedges in graphno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDAtomic single-document operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoMVCC based
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyes
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 KerberosyesUsers, roles and permissionsyes infousers and table-level permissions

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