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System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. Blazegraph vs. FatDB vs. FileMaker vs. Geode

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NameApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonFatDB  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonGeode  Xexclude from comparison
Amazon has acquired Blazegraph's domain and (probably) product. It is said that Amazon Neptune is based on Blazegraph.FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the 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.A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.FileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processes
Primary database modelRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
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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
Score47.91
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score1.86
Rank#134  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Websiteimpala.apache.orgblazegraph.comwww.claris.com/­filemakergeode.apache.org
Technical documentationimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmlwiki.blazegraph.comwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationgeode.apache.org/­docs
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaBlazegraphFatCloudClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleOriginally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.
Initial release20132006201219832002
Current release4.1.0, June 20222.1.5, March 201919.4.1, November 20211.1, February 2017
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoextended commercial license availablecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaC#Java
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
WindowsiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also required
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infoRDF literal typesyesyesyes
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.noyes infoA http query request can return the data in XML formatno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSPARQL is used as query languageno infoVia inetgration in SQL Serveryes infovia pluginsSQL-like query language (OQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3
.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings
Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#PHP.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceyesyes infovia applicationsyesuser defined functions
Triggersnonoyes infovia applicationsyesyes infoCache Event Listeners
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factoryesselectable replication factorSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14Multi-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoquery execution via MapReducenoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoRelationships in Graphsnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnonoyes, on a single node
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and KerberosSecurity and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)no infoCan implement custom security layer via applicationssimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesAccess rights per client and object definable

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