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DBMS > Apache Impala vs. Blazegraph vs. HarperDB vs. IBM Cloudant vs. SiteWhere

System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. Blazegraph vs. HarperDB vs. IBM Cloudant vs. SiteWhere

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NameApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonHarperDB  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparison
Amazon has acquired Blazegraph's domain and (probably) product. It is said that Amazon Neptune is based on Blazegraph.
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.Ultra-low latency distributed database with an intuitive REST API supporting NoSQL and SQL (including joins). Deployment of functions and databases simultaneously with a consolidated node-level architecture.Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Document storeDocument storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score13.77
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score0.75
Rank#219  Overall
#19  Graph DBMS
#8  RDF stores
Score0.55
Rank#248  Overall
#38  Document stores
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score0.06
Rank#356  Overall
#35  Time Series DBMS
Websiteimpala.apache.orgblazegraph.comwww.harperdb.iowww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantgithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhere
Technical documentationimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmlwiki.blazegraph.comdocs.harperdb.io/­docscloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantsitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaBlazegraphHarperDBIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014SiteWhere
Initial release20132006201720102010
Current release4.1.0, June 20222.1.5, March 20193.1, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoextended commercial license availablecommercial infofree community edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageC++JavaNode.jsErlangJava
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
hostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freedynamic schemaschema-freepredefined scheme
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infoRDF literal typesyes infoJSON data typesnoyes
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 indexesyesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSPARQL is used as query languageSQL-like data manipulation statementsnono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3
JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP REST
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceyesCustom Functions infosince release 3.1View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript
Triggersnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingA table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a clusterShardingSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factoryesyes infothe nodes on which a table resides can be definedMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor infobased on HBase
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 or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoRelationships in Graphsnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDAtomic execution of specific operationsno infoatomic operations within a document possibleno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoOptimistic lockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes, using LMDByesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and KerberosSecurity and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)Access rights for users and rolesAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseUsers with fine-grained authorization concept

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