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System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. Blueflood vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. ToroDB

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Name	Apache Impala  Xexclude from comparison	Blueflood  Xexclude from comparison	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparison	ToroDB  Xexclude from comparison
			SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.	ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
Description	Analytic DBMS for Hadoop	Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra	Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures	A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL
Primary database model	Relational DBMS	Time Series DBMS	Relational DBMS	Document store
Secondary database models	Document store
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 12.45 Rank #40   Overall #24   Relational DBMS	Score 0.13 Rank #346   Overall #33   Time Series DBMS
Website	impala.apache.org	blueflood.io	www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html	github.com/­torodb/­server
Technical documentation	impala.apache.org/­impala-docs.html	github.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wiki
Developer	Apache Software Foundation Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera	Rackspace	Sybase, SAP	8Kdata
Initial release	2013	2013	1993	2016
Current release	4.1.0, June 2022
License Commercial or Open Source	Open Source Apache Version 2	Open Source Apache 2.0	commercial	Open Source AGPL-V3
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	no	no	no	no
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Implementation language	C++	Java		Java
Server operating systems	Linux	Linux OS X	Linux Windows	All OS with a Java 7 VM
Data scheme	yes	predefined scheme	yes	schema-free
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	yes	yes	yes	yes string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id
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.	no	no	no	no
Secondary indexes	yes	no	yes
SQL Support of SQL	SQL-like DML and DDL statements	no	yes
APIs and other access methods	JDBC ODBC	HTTP REST	.NET Client API ADO.NET JDBC ODBC OLE DB
Supported programming languages	All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC		Delphi Perl PHP
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	yes user defined functions and integration of map-reduce	no	yes
Triggers	no	no	yes	no
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	Sharding	Sharding based on Cassandra	none	Sharding
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	selectable replication factor	selectable replication factor based on Cassandra	Multi-source replication CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts Source-replica replication	Source-replica replication
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	yes query execution via MapReduce	no	no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system	Eventual Consistency	Eventual Consistency based on Cassandra Immediate Consistency based on Cassandra	Immediate Consistency	Eventual Consistency Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	no	no	yes	no
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	no	no	ACID	no
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes	yes	yes	yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.	no	no	no caching of (temporary) tables can be configured
User concepts Access control	Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Apache Sentry and Kerberos	no	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard	Access rights for users and roles
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	Apache Impala	Blueflood	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS	ToroDB
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