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System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. Blueflood vs. Cubrid vs. Graph Engine vs. jBASE

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

CUBRID is an open-source SQL-based relational database management system with object extensions for OLTP

A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engine

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Multivalue DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	13.77
Rank	#40	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#353	Overall
	#34	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.20
Rank	#169	Overall
	#78	Relational DBMS

Score	0.61
Rank	#240	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#35	Key-value stores

Score	1.41
Rank	#159	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Website

impala.apache.org

blueflood.io

cubrid.com (korean)
cubrid.org (english)

www.graphengine.io

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

Technical documentation

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

cubrid.org/manuals

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

Rackspace

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

Microsoft

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Initial release

2013

2008

2010

1991

Current release

4.1.0, June 2022

11.0, January 2021

5.7

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C, C++, Java

.NET and C

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X

Linux
Windows

.NET

AIX
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

predefined scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

Java Stored Procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storage

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles

based on Apache Sentry and Kerberos

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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