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System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. BoltDB vs. Dragonfly vs. Drizzle vs. ObjectBox

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NameApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparison
Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for HadoopAn embedded key-value store for Go.A drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instanceMySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeKey-value storeRelational DBMSObject oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeTime Series DBMS
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Score12.45
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score0.80
Rank#215  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score0.49
Rank#261  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score1.29
Rank#166  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Websiteimpala.apache.orggithub.com/­boltdb/­boltgithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
objectbox.io
Technical documentationimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmlwww.dragonflydb.io/­docsdocs.objectbox.io
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaDragonflyDB team and community contributorsDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerObjectBox Limited
Initial release20132013202320082017
Current release4.1.0, June 20221.0, March 20237.2.4, September 2012
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoBSL 1.1Open Source infoGNU GPLOpen Source infoApache License 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++GoC++C++C and C++
Server operating systemsLinuxBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freescheme-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnostrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysyesyes
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 indexesyesnonoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnonoyes infowith proprietary extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolJDBCProprietary native API
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBCGoC
C#
C++
Clojure
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Tcl
C
C++
Java
PHP
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reducenoLuanono
Triggersnonopublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalityno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.no
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factornoneSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
online/offline synchronization between client and server
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoquery execution via MapReducenononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencynoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyesAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, strict serializability by the serveryesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and KerberosnoPassword-based authenticationPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPyes
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