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DBMS > Apache Impala vs. Blazegraph vs. CrateDB vs. Drizzle vs. Hyprcubd

System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. Blazegraph vs. CrateDB vs. Drizzle vs. Hyprcubd

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NameApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonCrateDB  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonHyprcubd  Xexclude from comparison
Amazon has acquired Blazegraph's domain and (probably) product. It is said that Amazon Neptune is based on Blazegraph.Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.Hyprcubd seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for HadoopHigh-performance graph database supporting Semantic Web (RDF/SPARQL) and Graph Database (tinkerpop3, blueprints, vertex-centric) APIs with scale-out and High Availability.Distributed Database based on LuceneMySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.Serverless Time Series DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Document store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeRelational DBMS
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Trend Chart
Score12.45
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score0.81
Rank#213  Overall
#19  Graph DBMS
#8  RDF stores
Score0.71
Rank#227  Overall
#37  Document stores
#5  Spatial DBMS
#16  Search engines
#19  Time Series DBMS
#8  Vector DBMS
Websiteimpala.apache.orgblazegraph.comcratedb.comhyprcubd.com (offline)
Technical documentationimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmlwiki.blazegraph.comcratedb.com/­docs
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaBlazegraphCrateDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerHyprcubd, Inc.
Initial release2013200620132008
Current release4.1.0, June 20222.1.5, March 20197.2.4, September 2012
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoextended commercial license availableOpen SourceOpen Source infoGNU GPLcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
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CrateDB Cloud: a distributed SQL database that spreads data and processing across an elastic cluster of shared nothing nodes. CrateDB Cloud enables data insights at scale on Microsoft Azure, AWS and Google Cloud Platform.
Implementation languageC++JavaJavaC++Go
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
All Operating Systems, including Kubernetes with CrateDB Kubernetes Operator supportFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
hosted
Data schemeyesschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infoRDF literal typesyesyesyes infotime, int, uint, float, string
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSPARQL is used as query languageyes, but no triggers and constraints, and PostgreSQL compatibilityyes infowith proprietary extensionsSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
RESTful HTTP API
JDBCgRPC (https)
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
.NET
Erlang
Go infocommunity maintained client
Java
JavaScript (Node.js) infocommunity maintained client
Perl infocommunity maintained client
PHP
Python
R
Ruby infocommunity maintained client
Scala infocommunity maintained client
C
C++
Java
PHP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceyesuser defined functions (Javascript)nono
Triggersnononono infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.no
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factoryesConfigurable replication on table/partition-levelMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoquery execution via MapReducenononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual Consistency
Read-after-write consistency on record level
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoRelationships in Graphsnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDno infounique row identifiers can be used for implementing an optimistic concurrency control strategyACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
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 KerberosSecurity and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)rights management via user accountsPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPtoken access
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Specific characteristicsThe enterprise database for time series, documents, and vectors. Distributed - Native...
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Competitive advantagesResponse time in milliseconds: e ven for complex ad-hoc queries. Massive scaling...
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Typical application scenarios​ IoT: accelerate your IIoT projects with CrateDB, delivering real-time analytics...
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Key customersAcross all continents, CrateDB is used by companies of all sizes to meet the most...
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Market metricsThe CrateDB open source project was started in 2013 Honorable Mention in 2021 Gartner®...
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Licensing and pricing modelsSee CrateDB pricing >
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