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DBMS > Apache Impala vs. atoti vs. BoltDB vs. CouchDB vs. Kingbase

System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. atoti vs. BoltDB vs. CouchDB vs. Kingbase

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NameApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonatoti  Xexclude from comparisonBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonKingbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for HadoopAn in-memory DBMS combining transactional and analytical processing to handle the aggregation of ever-changing data.An embedded key-value store for Go.A native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSObject oriented DBMSKey-value storeDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extensionDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score10.63
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score0.45
Rank#253  Overall
#13  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.70
Rank#225  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score7.46
Rank#51  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score0.44
Rank#258  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Websiteimpala.apache.orgatoti.iogithub.com/­boltdb/­boltcouchdb.apache.orgwww.kingbase.com.cn
Technical documentationimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmldocs.atoti.iodocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stable
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaActiveViamApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerBeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.
Initial release2013201320051999
Current release4.1.0, June 20223.3.3, December 2023V8.0, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercial infofree versions availableOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache version 2commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaGoErlangC and Java
Server operating systemsLinuxBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Android
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnonoyes
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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesyesnoyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsMultidimensional Expressions (MDX)nonoStandard with numerous extensions
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBCGoC
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reducePythonnoView functions in JavaScriptuser defined functions
Triggersnonoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding, horizontal partitioningnoneSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factornoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoquery execution via MapReducenonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencynoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyesno infoatomic operations within a single document possibleACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyes
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.noyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and KerberosnoAccess rights for users can be defined per databasefine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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