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System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. BoltDB vs. Citus vs. Coveo

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NameApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonCitus  Xexclude from comparisonCoveo  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for HadoopAn embedded key-value store for Go.Scalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQLAI-powered hosted search, recommendation and personalization platform providing tools for both low-code and full-code development
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsDocument storeDocument store
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Score14.03
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score0.76
Rank#224  Overall
#32  Key-value stores
Score2.15
Rank#123  Overall
#60  Relational DBMS
Score2.34
Rank#117  Overall
#11  Search engines
Websiteimpala.apache.orggithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.citusdata.comwww.coveo.com
Technical documentationimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmldocs.citusdata.comdocs.coveo.com
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaCoveo
Initial release2013201320102012
Current release4.1.0, June 20228.1, December 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyes
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Implementation languageC++GoC
Server operating systemsLinuxBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linuxhosted
Data schemeyesschema-freeyeshybrid - fields need to be configured prior to indexing, but relationships can be exploited at query time without pre-configuration
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes
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.nonoyes infospecific XML type available, but no XML query functionalityno
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoyes infostandard, with numerous extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBCGo.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reducenouser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.no
Triggersnonoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factornoneSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoquery execution via MapReducenonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyesACIDyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and Kerberosnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardgranular access controls, API key management, content filters

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