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System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. BigchainDB vs. OpenTSDB vs. RavenDB vs. Transbase

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NameApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonRavenDB  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for HadoopBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseOpen Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document DatabaseA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeGraph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score12.45
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score1.68
Rank#142  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score2.84
Rank#101  Overall
#18  Document stores
Score0.17
Rank#334  Overall
#148  Relational DBMS
Websiteimpala.apache.orgwww.bigchaindb.comopentsdb.netravendb.netwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmlbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmlravendb.net/­docswww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Clouderacurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsHibernating RhinosTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release20132016201120101987
Current release4.1.0, June 20225.4, July 2022Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoLGPLOpen Source infoAGPL version 3, commercial license availablecommercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++PythonJavaC#C and C++
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxLinux
Windows
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnonumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsnoyes
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 indexesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnonoSQL-like query language (RQL)yes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
Telnet API
.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBCGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reducenoyesyes
Triggersnonoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infobased on HBaseSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorselectable replication factorselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseMulti-source replicationSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoquery execution via MapReducenonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infobased on HBaseDefault ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACID, Cluster-wide transaction availableyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and KerberosyesnoAuthorization levels configured per client per databasefine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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