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

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

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NameApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonDuckDB  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.MySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.An embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMSServerless Time Series DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score12.45
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score0.81
Rank#213  Overall
#19  Graph DBMS
#8  RDF stores
Score4.63
Rank#69  Overall
#37  Relational DBMS
Websiteimpala.apache.orgblazegraph.comduckdb.orghyprcubd.com (offline)
Technical documentationimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmlwiki.blazegraph.comduckdb.org/­docs
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaBlazegraphDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerHyprcubd, Inc.
Initial release2013200620082018
Current release4.1.0, June 20222.1.5, March 20197.2.4, September 20120.10, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoextended commercial license availableOpen Source infoGNU GPLOpen Source infoMIT Licensecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
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Implementation languageC++JavaC++C++Go
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
server-lesshosted
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesyes
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 infowith proprietary extensionsyesSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3
JDBCArrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
gRPC (https)
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Java
PHP
C
C# info3rd party driver
C++
Crystal info3rd party driver
Go info3rd party driver
Java
Lisp info3rd party driver
Python
R
Ruby info3rd party driver
Rust
Swift
Zig info3rd party driver
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceyesnonono
Triggersnonono infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.nono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factoryesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none
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 configurationImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoRelationships in Graphsyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)no
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.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and KerberosSecurity and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)Pluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPnotoken access

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