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System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. BigchainDB vs. MariaDB vs. Memgraph

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NameApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonMariaDB  Xexclude from comparisonMemgraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for HadoopBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsMySQL application compatible open source RDBMS, enhanced with high availability, security, interoperability and performance capabilities. MariaDB ColumnStore provides a column-oriented storage engine and MariaDB Xpand supports distributed SQL.An open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4j
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeDocument store
Graph DBMS infowith OQGraph storage engine
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score10.63
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score0.76
Rank#216  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score83.44
Rank#15  Overall
#10  Relational DBMS
Score2.91
Rank#94  Overall
#7  Graph DBMS
Websiteimpala.apache.orgwww.bigchaindb.commariadb.com infoSite of MariaDB Corporation
mariadb.org infoSite of MariaDB Foundation
memgraph.com
Technical documentationimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmlbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestmariadb.com/­kb/­en/­librarymemgraph.com/­docs
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebookGitHubDiscord
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaMariaDB Corporation Ab (MariaDB Enterprise),
MariaDB Foundation (community MariaDB Server) infoThe lead developer Monty Widenius is the original author of MySQL
Memgraph Ltd
Initial release201320162009 infoFork of MySQL, which was first released in 19952017
Current release4.1.0, June 202211.5.2, August 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial enterprise subscription availableOpen Source infoBSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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STACKIT MariaDB offers MariaDB in a fully managed version in enterprise grade, 100% GDPR-compliant.
Implementation languageC++PythonC and C++C and C++
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxFreeBSD
Linux
Solaris
Windows infoColumnStore storage engine not available on Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyes infoDynamic columns are supportedschema-free and schema-optional
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoyes infowith proprietary extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Bolt protocol
Cypher query language
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBCGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceyes infoPL/SQL compatibility added with version 10.3
Triggersnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingseveral options for horizontal partitioning and ShardingSharding infodynamic graph partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorselectable replication factorMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication using RAFT
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoquery execution via MapReducenonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infonot for MyISAM storage engineyes inforelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID infonot for MyISAM storage engineACID infowith snapshot isolation
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByes infonot for in-memory storage engineyes infowith periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infowith MEMORY storage engineyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and Kerberosyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers, roles and permissions
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Apache ImpalaBigchainDBMariaDBMemgraph
Specific characteristicsMariaDB is the most powerful open source relational database – modern SQL and JSON...
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Memgraph directly connects to your streaming infrastructure so you and your team...
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Competitive advantagesMariaDB Servers have many features unavailable in other open source relational databases....
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Business Source License ensures a future for the Memgraph community MAGE algorithm...
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Typical application scenariosWeb, SaaS and Cloud operational applications that require high availability, scalability...
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Graph algorithms in bioinformatics Social network analysis Cryptocurrency network...
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Key customersDeutsche Bank, DBS Bank, Nasdaq, Red Hat, ServiceNow, Verizon and Walgreens Featured...
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Market metricsMariaDB is the default database in the LAMP stack supplied by Red Hat and SUSE Linux,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsMariaDB plc subscriptions cover our free, open source database, Community Server,...
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